George Orwell

Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950), better known by the pen name George Orwell, was a British author. Noted as a political and cultural commentator, as well as an accomplished novelist, Orwell is among the most widely admired English-language essayists of the twentieth century. He is possibly best known for two novels written towards the end of his life, in the 1940s; the political allegory Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four, which describes a totalitarian dystopia so vividly that the adjective "Orwellian" is now used to describe totalitarian mechanisms of thought control.

Essays

Main description: Essays of George Orwell

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• "A Hanging" (1931) — http://orwell.ru/library/articles/hanging/
• "Shooting an Elephant" (1936) — http://orwell.ru/library/articles/elephant/
• "Charles Dickens" (1939) — http://orwell.ru/library/reviews/dickens/
• "Boys' Weeklies" (1940) — http://orwell.ru/library/essays/boys/
• "Inside the Whale" (1940) — http://orwell.ru/library/essays/whale/
• "Wells, Hitler and the World State" (1941) — http://orwell.ru/library/reviews/wells/
• "The Art of Donald McGill" (1941) — http://orwell.ru/library/reviews/McGill/
• "Looking Back on the Spanish War" (1943) — http://orwell.ru/library/essays/Spanish_War/
• "W. B. Yeats" (1943) — http://orwell.ru/library/reviews/yeats/
• "" (1944) — http://orwell.ru/library/reviews/dali/
• "Arthur Koestler" (1944) — http://orwell.ru/library/reviews/koestler/
• "Notes on Nationalism" (1945) — http://orwell.ru/library/essays/nationalism/
• "How the Poor Die" (1946) — http://orwell.ru/library/articles/Poor_Die/
• "" (1946) — http://orwell.ru/library/reviews/swift/
• "Politics and the English Language" (1946) — http://orwell.ru/library/essays/politics/
• "Second Thoughts on James Burnham" (1946) — http://orwell.ru/library/reviews/burnham/
• "Decline of the English Murder" (1946) — http://orwell.ru/library/articles/decline/
• "Some Thoughts on the Common Toad" (1946) — http://orwell.ru/library/articles/Common_Toad/
• "A Good Word for the Vicar of Bray" (1946) — http://orwell.ru/library/reviews/vicar/
• "In Defence of P. G. Wodehouse" (1946) — http://orwell.ru/library/reviews/plum/
• "Why I Write" (1946) — http://orwell.ru/library/essays/wiw/
• "The Prevention of Literature" (1946) — http://orwell.ru/library/essays/prevention/
• "Such, Such Were the Joys" (1946) — http://orwell.ru/library/essays/joys/english/
• "Lear, Tolstoy and the Fool" (1947) — http://orwell.ru/library/essays/lear/
• "Reflections on Gandhi" (1949) — http://orwell.ru/library/reviews/gandhi/