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Start ValuationGeorge Orwell
25th June 1903 - 21st January 1950
AuthorOverview
English novelist, essayist, journalist and critic
Works
Pseudonym of Eric Blair, novelist and journalist. He wrote two of the 20th century’s greatest works of fiction, the bleak dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) which introduced numerous neologisms – ‘Room 101’, ‘Big Brother’, ‘Newspeak’ ‘Doublethink’ etc. - and the satirical attack on totalitarianism Animal Farm (1945). His left-leaning political views were also evident in other works – Homage to Catalonia (1938) about his experiences in the Spanish Civil War fighting Franco’s fascists, and The Road to Wigan Pier (1937) his journalistic account of poverty and unemployment in the north of England.
| Title | Date | Location | Publication |
| Down and Out in Paris and London First Edition | 1933 | London | Gollancz |
| Burmese Days First Edition | 1934 | New York | Harper |
| A Clergyman's Daughter First Edition | 1935 | London | Gollancz |
| Keep the Aspidistra Flying First Edition | 1936 | London | Gollancz |
| Homage to Catalonia First Edition | 1938 | London | Secker & Warburg |
| Coming up for Air First Edition | 1939 | London | Gollancz |
| Animal Farm First Edition | 1945 | London | Secker & Warburg |
| Nineteen Eighty-Four First Edition | 1949 | London | Secker & Warburg |
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