George Orwell

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George Orwell was an English writer. His real name was Eric Arthur Blair (June 25, 1903–January 21, 1950). He used the name George Orwell for his novels.

He was born in India in the times when The British Empire ruled India. He is best known for two novels that he wrote in the late 1940s, Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four. In those works he criticized totalitarism in general, and Stalinism in particular.

Orwell participated in the Spanish Civil War, in the antifascists troops.

[change] Bibliography

Novels:

• Burmese Days (1934)
• A Clergyman's Daughter (1935)
• Keep the Aspidistra Flying (1936)
• Coming Up for Air (1939)
• Animal Farm (1945)
• Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949)

Books Based on Personal Experiences:

• Down and Out in Paris and London (1933)
• The Road to Wigan Pier (1937)
• Homage to Catalonia (1938)

Poems:

• "Romance"
• "A Little Poem"
• "Awake! Young Men of England"
• "Kitchener"
• "Our Minds are Married, But we are Too Young"
• "The Pagan"
• "The Lesser Evil"
• "Poem From Burma"