WRITER

George Orwell

1903 - 1950

George Orwell

Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950) was a British novelist, poet, essayist, journalist, and critic who wrote under the pen name of George Orwell. His work is characterised by lucid prose, social criticism, opposition to all totalitarianism (i.e. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of George Orwell has received more than 17,713,962 page views. His biography is available in 140 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 131 in 2019). George Orwell is the 56th most popular writer (down from 36th in 2019), the 5th most popular biography from India (down from 3rd in 2019) and the most popular Indian Writer.

George Orwell is most famous for his dystopian novel 1984.

Memorability Metrics

18M
Page Views (PV)
80.00
Historical Popularity Index (HPI)
140
Languages Editions (L)
9.33
Effective Languages (L*)
5.89
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Notable Works

Nineteen Eighty-Four

Fiction / Classics, Fiction / Literary

Nineteen Eighty-Four revealed George Orwell as one of the twentieth century's greatest mythmakers. While the totalitarian system that provoked him into writing it has since passed into oblivion, his harrowing cautionary tale of a man trapped in a political nightmare has had the opposite fate: its relevance and power to disturb our complacency seem to grow decade by decade. In Winston Smith's desperate struggle to free himself from an all-encompassing, malevolent state, Orwell zeroed in on tendencies apparent in every modern society, and made vivid the universal predicament of the individual. (Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)

19494 / 5

Down and Out in Paris and London

Biography & Autobiography

'You have talked so often of going to the dogs - and well, here are the dogs, and you have reached them.' George Orwell's vivid memoir of his time among the desperately poor and destitute in London and Paris is a moving tour of the underworld of society. Here he painstakingly documents a world of unrelenting drudgery and squalor - sleeping in bug-infested hostels and doss houses, working as a dishwasher in the vile 'Hôtel X', living alongside tramps, surviving on scraps and cigarette butts - in an unforgettable account of what being down and out is really like. Includes an introduction by Dervla Murphy, as well as definitive footnotes assigned to Orwell.

19334 / 5

Animal Farm

Domestic animals

Fueled by Orwell's intense disillusionment with Soviet Communism, Animal Farm is a nearly perfect piece of writing, both an engaging story and an allegory that actually works.

19204 / 5

The Road to Wigan Pier

Biography & Autobiography

A searing account of George Orwell's observations of working-class life in the bleak industrial heartlands of Yorkshire and Lancashire in the 1930s, The Road to Wigan Pier is a brilliant and bitter polemic that has lost none of its political impact over time. His graphically unforgettable descriptions of social injustice, cramped slum housing, dangerous mining conditions, squalor, hunger and growing unemployment are written with unblinking honesty, fury and great humanity. It crystallized the ideas that would be found in Orwell's later works and novels, and remains a powerful portrait of poverty, injustice and class divisions in Britain. Includes illustrations, explanatory footnotes, and an introduction by Richard Hoggart.

19374 / 5

Burmese Days

1934

Homage to Catalonia

1938