Orwell is best known for the dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (published in 1949) and the satirical novella Animal Farm (1945) - they have together sold more copies than any two books by any other twentieth-century author. He was a prolific polemical journalist, article writer, literary critic, reviewer, poet, and writer of fiction, and, considered perhaps the twentieth century's best chronicler of English culture. In 1943, he became literary editor of the Tribune, a weekly left-wing magazine. However by then they had escaped from Spain and returned to England.īetween 19, Orwell worked on propaganda for the BBC. Orwell and his wife were accused of "rabid Trotskyism" and tried in absentia in Barcelona, along with other leaders of the POUM, in 1938. Later the organization that he had joined when he joined the Republican cause, The Workers Party of Marxist Unification (POUM), was painted by the pro-Soviet Communists as a Trotskyist organization (Trotsky was Joseph Stalin's enemy) and disbanded. Orwell was severely wounded when he was shot through his throat. In addition to his literary career Orwell served as a police officer with the Indian Imperial Police in Burma from 1922-1927 and fought with the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War from 1936-1937. His work is marked by keen intelligence and wit, a profound awareness of social injustice, an intense opposition to totalitarianism, a passion for clarity in language, and a belief in democratic socialism. One is Julia, whom he meets after she hands him a slip reading, "I love you." The other is O'Brien, who tells him, "We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness." The way in which Winston is betrayed by the one and, against his own desires and instincts, ultimately betrays the other, makes a story of mounting drama and suspense.Īlternate cover edition can be found here.Įric Arthur Blair, better known by his pen name George Orwell, was an English author and journalist. To Winston Smith, a young man who works in the Ministry of Truth (Minitru for short), come two people who transform this life completely. As every citizen knows only too well, war is peace. The scene is London, where there has been no new housing since 1950 and where the city-wide slums are called Victory Mansions. Though the story of Nineteen Eighty-Four takes place thirty-five years hence, it is in every sense timely.
Critics have hailed it as his "most solid, most brilliant" work.
The new novel by George Orwell is the major work towards which all his previous writing has pointed.
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