AUTHOR | GEORGE ORWELL
George Orwell | Novelist, political writer and journalist
Bio:
Eric Arthur Blair , who used the pen name George Orwell, was an English novelist, essayist, journalist, and critic. His work is marked by lucid prose, awareness of social injustice, opposition to totalitarianism, and outspoken support of democratic socialism. Orwell wrote literary criticism, poetry, fiction, and polemical journalism. He is perhaps best known for his dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) and the allegorical novella Animal Farm (1945). His non-fiction works, including The Road to Wigan Pier (1937), documenting his experience of working class life in the north of England, and Homage to Catalonia (1938), an account of his experiences in the Spanish Civil War, are widely acclaimed, as are his essays on politics, literature, language, and culture. In 2008, The Times ranked him second on a list of 'The 50 greatest British writers since 1945'. Orwell's work continues to influence popular and political culture, and the term Orwellian—descriptive of totalitari
Born: 1903-06-25
Born in: Motihari, Bengal Presidency, British India
Died: 1950-01-21
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All Quotes from the Author George Orwell 111
“ Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every ...
“ A dull, decent people, cherishing and fortifying the...
“ Good prose should be transparent, like a window pane.
“ ...In this place you could not feel anything, except...
“ That is her style of beauty.
“ For, after all, how do we know that two and two make...
“ She had had her momentary flowering, a year, perhaps...
“ But that was merely an intellectual decision, taken ...
“ They were governed by private loyalties which they d...
“ Outside, even through the shut window-pane, the worl...
“ Never for any reason on earth, could you wish for an...
“ In the past the need for a hierarchal form of societ...
“ Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else. ...
“ Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it shoul...
“ Reality is inside the skull.
“ The essential act of war is destruction, not necessa...