About George Orwell
English novelist, essayist, and journalist (1903–1950), born Eric Arthur Blair. A democratic socialist who fought in the Spanish Civil War and turned fiercely against totalitarianism of every stripe, Orwell wrote Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four along with some of the century's finest political essays; 'Orwellian' entered the language as a word for state mendacity.
Books by George Orwell
Homage to Catalonia
Orwell's first-hand account of the Spanish Civil War, and the experience that made him the century's great anti-totalitarian of the left. Fighting in a revolutionary militia in Barcelona, he saw both the exhilaration of…
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The most influential political novel ever written, and the source of a vocabulary we still use to think about tyranny: Big Brother, doublethink, thoughtcrime, the memory hole. Orwell imagines a regime that controls not…
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