George Orwell, 1903-1950

Biographical note

George Orwell was the pen name used by British author and journalist Eric Arthur Blair. During most of his professional life time Orwell was best known for his journalism, both in the British press and in books such as Homage to Catalonia, describing his activities during the Spanish Civil War, and Down and Out in Paris and London, describing a period of poverty in these cities. Orwell is best remembered today for two of his novels, Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four.

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Works

  • Down and Out in Paris and London [1933]
  • Burmese Days [1934]
  • A Clergyman's Daughter [1935]
  • Keep the Aspidistra Flying [1936]
  • The Road to Wigan Pier [1937]
  • Homage to Catalonia [1938]
  • Coming up for Air [1939]
  • Animal Farm [1945]
  • Nineteen eighty-four [1949]
  • Collected Essays
    1. The Spike [1931]
    2. A hanging [1931]
    3. Bookshop memories [1936]
    4. Shooting an elephant [1936]
    5. Down the mine [1937] (from “The Road to Wigan Pier”)
    6. North and south [1937] (from “The Road to Wigan Pier”)
    7. Spilling the Spanish beans [1937]
    8. Marrakech [1939]
    9. Boys’ weeklies and Frank Richards’s reply [1940]
    10. Charles Dickens [1940]
    11. Charles Reade [1940]
    12. Inside the whale [1940]
    13. The art of Donald Mcgill [1941]
    14. The lion and the unicorn: Socialism and the English genius [1941]
    15. Wells, Hitler and the world state [1941]
    16. Looking back on the Spanish war [1942]
    17. Rudyard Kipling [1942]
    18. Mark Twain—the licensed jester [1943]
    19. Poetry and the microphone [1943]
    20. W B Yeats [1943]
    21. Arthur Koestler [1944]
    22. Benefit of clergy: Some notes on Salvador Dali [1944]
    23. Raffles and Miss Blandish [1944]
    24. Antisemitism in Britain [1945]
    25. Freedom of the park [1945]
    26. Future of a ruined Germany [1945]
    27. Good bad books [1945]
    28. In defence of P. G. Wodehouse [1945]
    29. Nonsense poetry [1945]
    30. Notes on nationalism [1945]
    31. Revenge is sour [1945]
    32. The sporting spirit [1945]
    33. You and the atomic bomb [1945]
    34. A good word for the Vicar of Bray [1946]
    35. A nice cup of tea [1946]
    36. Books vs. Cigarettes [1946]
    37. Confessions of a book reviewer [1946]
    38. Decline of the English murder [1946]
    39. How the poor die [1946]
    40. James Burnham and the managerial revolution [1946]
    41. Pleasure spots [1946]
    42. Politics and the English language [1946]
    43. Politics vs. Literature: An examination of Gulliver’s Travels [1946]
    44. Riding down from Bangor [1946]
    45. Some thoughts on the common toad [1946]
    46. The prevention of literature [1946]
    47. Why I write [1946]
    48. Lear, Tolstoy and the fool [1947]
    49. Such, such were the joys [1947]
    50. Writers and Leviathan [1948]
    51. Reflections on Gandhi [1949]

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