George Orwell
Essay · Memoir · Novel · Novella · English · Modern
George Orwell
born Eric Arthur Blair
George Orwell left 6 works in this house — read them for the pressure they put on ordinary feeling.
The writings
Novel
Novel · 1949
Nineteen Eighty-Four
George Orwell
Aya Saleh · Ink & Ivy
Nineteen Eighty-Four
1949 · Dystopia · Political fiction
Winston Smith edits the past for a living and commits the crime of keeping a private diary in a state that has abolished privacy.
Novel · 1934
Burmese Days
George Orwell
Aya Saleh · Ink & Ivy
Burmese Days
1934 · Colonial fiction · Satire
A timber merchant's slow suffocation inside the club-room racism of British Burma.
Memoir
Memoir · 1938
Homage to Catalonia
George Orwell
Aya Saleh · Ink & Ivy
Homage to Catalonia
1938 · Reportage · Memoir
Orwell's account of fighting with the POUM militia in the Spanish Civil War — and of being hunted by his own side.
Memoir · 1933
Down and Out in Paris and London
George Orwell
Aya Saleh · Ink & Ivy
Down and Out in Paris and London
1933 · Reportage · Memoir
Plongeur kitchens and casual wards, reported from inside destitution.
