George Orwell | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-03-26

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00:01:39 1 Life
00:01:48 1.1 Early years
00:08:20 1.2 Policing in Burma
00:13:04 1.3 London and Paris
00:17:19 1.4 Southwold
00:20:51 1.5 Teaching career
00:24:24 1.6 Hampstead
00:27:10 1.7 iThe Road to Wigan Pier/i
00:32:55 1.8 The Spanish Civil War
00:39:36 1.9 Rest and recuperation
00:42:04 1.10 Second World War and iAnimal Farm/i
00:51:43 1.11 Jura and iNineteen Eighty-Four/i
00:58:41 1.12 Final months and death
01:02:05 2 Literary career and legacy
01:04:21 2.1 Literary influences
01:07:28 2.2 Orwell as literary critic
01:09:36 2.3 Food writing
01:11:00 2.4 Reception and evaluations of Orwell's works
01:16:03 2.5 Influence on language and writing
01:19:05 2.6 Modern culture
01:19:43 2.7 Statue
01:20:23 3 Personal life
01:20:32 3.1 Childhood
01:23:43 3.2 Relationships and marriage
01:26:38 3.3 Social interactions
01:31:07 3.4 Lifestyle
01:33:39 4 Views
01:33:48 4.1 Religion
01:36:25 4.2 Politics
01:47:42 4.3 Sexuality
01:49:47 5 Biographies of Orwell
01:52:42 6 Ancestry
01:52:51 7 Bibliography
01:53:00 7.1 Novels
01:53:29 7.2 Nonfiction
01:53:49 8 Notes
01:53:58 9 See also



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Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950), better known by his pen name George Orwell, was an English novelist, essayist, journalist and critic, whose work is marked by lucid prose, awareness of social injustice, opposition to totalitarianism, and outspoken support of democratic socialism.Orwell wrote literary criticism, poetry, fiction and polemical journalism. He is best known for the allegorical novella Animal Farm (1945) and the dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949). His non-fiction works, including The Road to Wigan Pier (1937), documenting his experience of working class life in the north of England, and Homage to Catalonia (1938), an account of his experiences on the Republican side in the Spanish Civil War, are widely acclaimed, as are his essays on politics, literature, language and culture. In 2008, The Times ranked him second on a list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945".Orwell's work continues to influence popular and political culture and the term "Orwellian"—descriptive of totalitarian or authoritarian social practices—has entered the language together with many of his neologisms, including "Big Brother", "Thought Police", "Room 101", "memory hole", "newspeak", "doublethink", "proles", "unperson" and "thoughtcrime".