George Orwell
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Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950) was a British novelist, poet, essayist, journalist, and critic who wrote under the pen name of George Orwell, a name inspired by his favourite place River Orwell. His work is characterised by lucid prose, social criticism, opposition to all totalitarianism (i.e. to both left-wing authoritarian communism and to right-wing fascism), and support of democratic socialism. Orwell is best known for his allegorical novella Animal Farm (1945) and the dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), although his works also encompass literary criticism, poetry, fiction, and polemical journalism. His non-fiction works, including The Road to Wigan Pier (1937), documenting his experience of working-class life in the industrial north of England, and Homage to Catalonia (1938), an account of his experiences soldiering for the Republican faction of the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939), are as critically respected as his essays on politics, literature, language and culture. Orwell's work remains influential in popular culture and in political culture, and the adjective "Orwellian"—describing totalitarian and authoritarian social practices—is part of the English language, like many of his neologisms, such as "Big Brother", "Thought Police", "Room 101", "Newspeak", "memory hole", "doublethink", and "thoughtcrime". In 2008, The Times named Orwell the second-greatest British writer since 1945. Source: Wikipedia (en)
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Works about George Orwell 12
- Why Orwell Matters
- Eric & Us
- Anarchist Seeds Beneath the Snow
- George Orwell: A Life
- Austerity Measures: Presenting Food in British Writing, 1939-1954
- 2084: The Fantasy Compact
- Orwell: The Life
- Orwell: The New Life
- George Orwell
- George Orwell: Eine Einführung
- George Orwell at Home (and Among the Anarchists): Essays and Photographs
- The Duty to Stand Aside
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