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George Orwell

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George Orwell (1903 — 1950). English author and journalist, pseudonym of Eric Arthur Blair. ~ Biography ~ Works on Wikisource

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George Orwell (1903 — 1950). Escritor y periodista inglés. ~ Biografía

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George Orwell (1903 — 1950). Écrivain et journaliste anglais, pseudonyme de Eric Arthur Blair. ~ Biographie ~ Œuvres sur Wikisource

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Джордж Оруэлл (1903 — 1950). Английский писатель и журналист ~ Биография

Works

English

Bibliography : see wikipedia

Novels

• Burmese Days (1934)
• A Clergyman's Daughter (1935)
• Keep the Aspidistra Flying (1936)
• Coming Up for Air (1939)
• Animal Farm (1945)
  • The Freedom of the Press, preface (1945), first published in the Times Literary Supplement (15 September 1972)
  • Preface to the Ukrainian edition (1946-47)
• Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949)

Autobiographical works

• Down and Out in Paris and London (1933)
• The Road to Wigan Pier (1937)
• Homage to Catalonia (1938)
• Autobiographical Note (1940)

Essays, articles, reviews

1928

• La Censure en Angleterre
• Burma
• A Farthing Newspaper (december)
• Unemployment in England

1929

• A Day in the Life of a Tramp
• Beggars in London
• John Galsworthy

1930

• Review of Herman Melville by Lewis Mumford
• Review of Alexander Pope by Edith Sitwell, etc
• A Good 'Middle' (october)
• Review of Angel Pavement by J. B. Priestley (october)

1931

• Review of The Two Carlyles by Osbert Burdett (march)
• The Spike (avril)
• Poverty - Plain and Coloured (avril)
• A Hanging (august)
• Hop-Picking

1932

• Review of The Spirit of Catholicism by Karl Adam
• Clink
• Review of Byron and the Need of Fatality by Charles du Bos
• Common Lodging Houses

1935

• Review of Caliban Shrieks by Jack Hilton (march)
• Review of Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller (november)

1936

• Shooting an Elephant (autumn)
• My Country Right or Left
• Propagandist Critics (december)

1937

• Spilling the Spanish Beans
• Eye-witness in Barcelona

1938

• Review of Spanish Testament by Arthur Koestler
• Why I Joined the Independent Labour Party
• Political Reflections on the Crisis
• Will Gypsies Survive?

1939

• Not Counting Niggers
• The Spanish War
• Marrakech

1940

• Inside the Whale and Other Essays
• New Words (c. 1940)
• Review of Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler
• The Limit to Pessimism
• Notes on the Way
• Review of Personal Record by Julien Green
• Review of The Totalitarian Enemy by Franz Borkenau
• Prophecies of Fascism
• Charles Reade
• The Proletarian Writer (Discussion between Orwell and Desmond Hawkins)
• Review of Landfall by Nevil Shute; Nailcruncher by Albert Cohen, translated from the French by Vyvyan Holland

1941

• The Lion and the Unicorn: Socialism and the English Genius
• The Frontiers of Art and Propaganda
• Tolstoy and Shakespeare
• The Meaning of a Poem
• Literature and Totalitarianism
• Wells, Hitler and the World State
• The Art of Donald McGill
• No, Not One

1942

• Rudyard Kipling
• The Rediscovery of Europe
• The British Crisis: London Letter to Partisan Review
• Review of The Sword and the Sickle by Mulk Raj Anand
• Pacifism and the War
• Review of Burnt Norton, East Coker, The Dry Salvages by T. S. Eliot
• B.B.C. Internal Memorandum
• Review of The British Way in Warfare by B. H. Liddell Hart
• Looking Back on the Spanish War

1943

• As I Please (1943-1947)
• W.B.Yeats
• Pamphlet Literature
• Literature and the Left
• Review of Beggar My Neighbour by Lionel Fielden
• Who Are the War Criminals?
• Mark Twain — The Licensed Jester
• Poetry and the Microphone
• Review of Collected Poems by W. H. Davies

1944

• A Hundred Up
• Review of The Edge of the Abyss by Alfred Noyes
• Review of The Road to Serfdom by F. A. Hayek, etc.
• Propaganda and Demotic Speech
• Benefit of Clergy: Some Notes on Salvador Dali
• Raffles and Miss Blandish
• Arthur Koestler
• Tobias Smollett
• A Controversy: Orwell: Agate
• Review of The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith
• Funny, But Not Vulgar
• Oysters and Brown Stout

1945

• A New Year Message
• Review of The Unquiet Grave by "Palinurus"
• Antisemitism in Britain
• In Defence of P. G. Wodehouse
• Notes on Nationalism
• Review of The Nigger of the Narcissus etc by Joseph Conrad
• Revenge Is Sour
• You and the Atom Bomb
• What Is Science?
• Review of Drumu under the Windows by Sean O'Casey
• Catastrophic Gradualism
• Good Bad Books
• Introduction to Love of Life and Other Stories by Jack London
• Review of The Prussian Officer and Other Stories by D.H. Lawrence
• Through a Glass, Rosily
• Freedom of the Park
• The Sporting Spirit
• Nonsense Poetry
• Review of A Coat of Many Colours: Occasional Essays by Herbert Read
• Introduction to The Position of Peggy Harper by Leonard Merrick
• In Defence of English Cooking

1946

• Critical Essays
• Why I Write
• The Prevention of Literature
• Review of We by E.I. Zamyatin
• Pleasure Spots
• The Politics of Starvation
• Decline of an English Murder
• A Nice Cup of Tea
• Politics and the English Language
• The Moon Under Water
• Review of The Reilly Plan by Lawrence Wolfe
• Books v. Cigarettes
• Review of The Democrat at the Supper Table by Colm Brogan
• Review of The Cosmological Eye by Henry Miller
• Review of The Story of Burma by F. Tennyson Jesse
• Review of The Martyrdom of Man by Winwood Reade
• In Front of Your Nose
• Some Thoughts on the Common Toad
• A Good Word for the Vicar of Bray
• Editorial to Polemic
• James Burnham and the Managerial Revolution
• Confessions of a Book Reviewer
• The Cost of Letters
• Politics vs. Literature: an Examination of Gulliver's Travels
• How the Poor Die
• Riding Down from Bangor

1947

• Lear, Tolstoy and the Fool
• Burnham's View of the Contemporary World Struggle
• Such, Such Were the Joys
• Toward European Unity

1948

• In Defence of Comrade Zilliacus
• Writers and Leviathan
• Review of The Soul of Man under Socialism by Oscar Wilde
• George Gissing
• Review of The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
• Review of Great Morning by Osbert Sitwell
• The Freedom Defence Committee
• Review of Portrait of the Antisemite by Jean-Paul Sartre
• Review of Notes towards the Definition of Culture by T.S. Eliot

1949

• Reflections on Gandhi
• Conrad's Place and Rank in English Letters
• The Question of the Pound Award
• Review of Their Finest Hour by Winston S. Churchill

Collections

• Inside the Whale and Other Essays (1940)
• Critical Essays (1946)

Posthumous collections

• Shooting an Elephant and Other Essays (1950)
• England Your England and Other Essays (1953) (Such, Such Were the Joys)
• A Collection of Essays by George Orwell (1954)
• The Orwell Reader, Fiction, Essays, and Reportage (1956)
• Selected Essays (1957)
• Collected Essays (1961)

Poems

See Wikisource for pre-1923 poems.

• The Lesser Evil, 1924
• Ironic Poem about Prostitution, 1925

French translations

• La Vache enragée, traduit par René-Noël Raimbault d'Hauterive (1882-1968) et Gwen Gilbert (?-?), 1933
• Tragédie birmane (Burmese Days), traduction de Léon Guillot de Saix (1885 - 1964), 1946
• Les Animaux partout (Animal Farm), traduit par Sophie Dévil, 1947
• 1984 (Nineteen Eighty-Four), traduction d’Amélie Audiberti, 1950
• La Catalogne libre (Homage to Catalonia), traduit par Yvonne Davet (1906-vers 198[?]?), 1955
• Et vive l’Aspidistra ! (Keep the Aspidistra Flying), traduit par Yvonne Davet, 1960
• Le Quai de Wigan (The Road to Wigan Pier)
• Un peu d’air frais (Coming Up for Air)

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