George Orwell’s Works
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George Orwell published his first book “Down and Out in Paris and London” in 1933. The novel was non-fiction, about his experience with poverty after the time he left Burma. He worked at low paying jobs in England and France. In the 1930's he published three other novels: in 1935 “A Clergyman's Daughter”, in 1936 “Keep the Aspidistra Flying”, and in 1939 “Coming Up for Air”. His 2 major documentary works of the period were: in 1937 “The Road to Wigan Pier”, a study of the lives of miners in the Lancashire town of Wigan, and in 1938 “Homage to Catalonia”, which describes his experiences fighting for the Loyalists in the Spanish Civil War. His two best-known books which made him famous, are "Animal Farm” -1945, a novel attacking Stalinism, and "Nineteen Eighty-Four” - 1949, a novel about bureaucratized society. Orwell is known not only for his political satires but also for his essays. In 1946 he published "Politics and the English Language".