George Orwell Biography, Wife, Children, Family, Essays,
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Who is
George Orwell?
Eric Arthur Blair, known by his pen name George Orwell, was an English novelist, essayist, journalist and critic. His work is characterised by lucid prose, biting social criticism, opposition to totalitarianism, and outspoken support of democratic socialism.
Biography
Birth Name: Eric Arthur Blair
Date of birth: 25 June 1903
Birth Place: Motihari, Bengal Presidency, British India
Full name: Eric Arthur Blair
Pen name: George Orwell
Education: Eton College
Death Date: January 21, 1950
Death Place: University College Hospital, London, England
Resting place: All Saints' Church, Sutton Courtenay,
Oxfordshire, England
Parents: Ida Mabel Limouzin
Richard Walmsley Blair
Spouse: Eileen O'Shaughnessy (m. 1936; died 1945)
Sonia
Brownell (m. 1949)
Writing Subjects: Anti-fascism, anti-Stalinism, anarchism,
democratic socialism, literary criticism, journalism, and polemic
Genre: Dystopia, satire, roman à clef
Books
Novels
1934 – Burmese Days
1935 – A Clergyman's Daughter
1936 – Keep the Aspidistra Flying
1939 – Coming Up for Air
1945 – Animal Farm
1949 – Nineteen Eighty-Four
Non
fiction
1933 – Down and Out in Paris and London
1937 – The Road to Wigan Pier
1938 – Homage to Catalonia
Essays
By ORWELL
Nonsense Poetry (Tribune, 1945)
Poetry and the microphone (New Saxon Pamphlet, 1945)
W. B. Yeats (Horizon, 1943)
Inside the Whale (1932)
Rudyard Kipling (Horizon, 1942)
Poems
By ORWELL
A dressed man and a naked man (1933)
A Happy Vicar I Might Have Been (1935)
Dear Friend, allow me for a little while (c. 1927)
Kitchener
My Love and I
Romance (1925)
Sometimes in the middle autumn days (The Adelphi, 1933)
Suggested by a Tooth Paste Advertisement (c. 1918-1919)
Summer-like for an instant (1933)
The Lesser Evil (1922-27)
The Pagan (1918)
The Photographer (1920)
When the Franks Have Lost Their Sway (c. 1927)
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