“What I have most wanted to do throughout the past ten years is to make…” — George Orwell

“What I have most wanted to do throughout the past ten years is to make political writing into an art.”

Describing the meeting of political commitment and literary craft · Essay

About George Orwell

25 June 1903–21 January 1950

George Orwell, born Eric Arthur Blair on June 25, 1903, in the small town of Motihari in the Bengal Presidency of British India, emerged as one of the twentieth century’s most piercing literary voices. Though often remembered first as a novelist and essayist whose works dissected totalitarianism, social injustice, and…

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