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| Name: |
George Orwell | | Birth Date: |
June 25, 1903 | | Death Date: |
January 21, 1950 | | Place of Birth: |
Motihari, India | | Place of Death: |
London, England | | Nationality: |
British | | Gender: |
Male | | Occupations: |
writer, novelist, essayist |
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Biography of George Orwell
1,245 words, approx. 4 pages
 The British novelist and essayist George Orwell (1903-1950) is best known for his satirical novels Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-four. George Orwell was born Eric Arthur Blair at Motihari, Bengal, India. His father, Richard Walmesley Blair, was a...
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Biography of George Orwell
10,913 words, approx. 36 pages
 George Orwell's remarkable international reputation is primarily due to his last two novels, Animal Farm (1945) and Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), which have spoken to the Cold War consciousness with such force and intimacy that conceptions such as Big...
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Biography of George Orwell
10,378 words, approx. 35 pages
 George Orwell's remarkable international reputation is primarily due to his last two novels, Animal Farm (1945) and Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), which have spoken to the Cold War consciousness with such force and intimacy that conceptions like Big...



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George Orwell Quotes
12,469 words, approx. 42 pages
 George Orwell was the pen name of British novelist, essayist, and journalist Eric Arthur Blair ( 1903-06-25 – 1950-01-21 ). See also: The Road to Wigan Pier (1937) Animal Farm (1945) Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) Contents 1 Sourced 1.1 Down and out in...


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George Orwell Information
8,191 words, approx. 27 pages
 Eric Arthur Blair (25 June, 1903[1][2]—21 January 1950), better known by the pen name George Orwell, was an English author and journalist. Noted as a novelist and critic as well as a political and cultural commentator, Orwell is among the most widely...




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Britain's own "Big Brother" eyed Orwell
9/3/2007: 597 words, approx. 2 pages George Orwell's left-wing views and bohemian clothes led British police to label him a communist _ but the MI5 spy agency stepped in to correct that view, the writer's newly released security file reveals.The secret file that MI5 kept on the author from 1929 until...
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Files reveal struggles of The New Leader
2/3/2007: 1,028 words, approx. 3 pages George Orwell, Arthur Miller and Bertrand Russell have been among its contributors. Influential texts have included Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev's then-secret denunciation of Stalin and the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "Letter From a Birmingham Jail."The New Leader, founded in 1924, is a chronically underfunded...
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Files show magazine's struggle
2/3/2007: 1,028 words, approx. 3 pages George Orwell, Arthur Miller and Bertrand Russell have been among its contributors. Influential texts have included Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev's then-secret denunciation of Stalin and the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "Letter From a Birmingham Jail."The New Leader, founded in 1924, is a chronically underfunded...
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Today in history - Jan. 21
1/21/2007: 520 words, approx. 2 pages Today is Sunday, Jan. 21, the 21st day of 2007. There are 344 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On Jan. 21, 1793, during the French Revolution, King Louis XVI, condemned for treason, was executed on the guillotine.On this date:In 1861, Jefferson Davis of...




Featured Essays
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George Orwell: Author, Socialist, and Patriot
3,601 words, approx. 12 pages
 This essay speaks of George Orwell as a socialist writer. Part biographical, my thesis is that Orwell struggled to reconcile his patriotism to his socialist beliefs. NOTE: This essay, while it contains a few paragraphs about Animal Farm, is not a review of Animal Farm or 1984.
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George Orwell: A Satirist in Life and Fiction
2,665 words, approx. 9 pages
 George Orwell was one of the most prominent and controversial writers of the 1930s and 1940s. His most-famous works, "Animal Farm" and "1984," were satirical vision of Soviet-style Communist and the growing intrusiveness of government. His life was dedicating to his writing and his democratic socialist ideology.
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Altered Self-Image According to Thiong'o, Orwell, and Kincaid
1,520 words, approx. 5 pages
 Three writers -- Ngugi wa Thiong'o in his essay "Decolonising the Mind," George Orwell in his essay "Shooting an Elephant," and Jamaica Kincaid in her essay "On Seeing England for the First Time" -- all clearly point out how alienation affects an individual's life. Together they present the argument that alienation affects an individual's self-image due to the views that were forced by the colonizers upon the colonized.


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