Author:George Orwell

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George Orwell (1903–1950)

See biography, media, quotes. The Pen name of Eric Arthur Blair, an Anglo-Bengali essayist and novelist.

Works by this author published since 1923 remain protected under United States copyright law until 1 January 2021.

For a complete listing of Orwell's work, see Bibliography of George Orwell

[edit] Works

• Down and Out in Paris and London (1933)
• Burmese Days (1934)
• A Clergyman's Daughter (1935)
• Keep the Aspidistra Flying (1936)
• The Road to Wigan Pier (1937)
• Homage to Catalonia (1938)
• Coming Up for Air (1939)
• Animal Farm (1945)
• Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949)

[edit] Essays

• "The Spike" (1931)
• "A Nice Cup of Tea" (1946)
• "A Hanging" (1931)
• "Shooting an Elephant" (1936)
• "Charles Dickens" (1939)
• "Boys' Weeklies" (1940)
• "Inside the Whale" (1940)
• "The Lion and the Unicorn: Socialism and the English Genius" (1941)
• "Wells, Hitler and the World State" (1941)
• "The Art of Donald McGill" (1941)
• "Looking Back on the Spanish War" (1943)
• "W. B. Yeats" (1943)
• "Benefit of Clergy: Some notes on Salvador Dali" (1944)
• "Arthur Koestler" (1944)
• "Notes on Nationalism" (1945)
• "How the Poor Die" (1946)
• "Politics vs. Literature: An Examination of Gulliver's Travels" (1946)
• "Politics and the English Language" (1946)
• "Second Thoughts on James Burnham" (1946)
• "Decline of the English Murder" (1946)
• "Some Thoughts on the Common Toad" (1946)
• "A Good Word for the Vicar of Bray" (1946)
• "In Defence of P. G. Wodehouse" (1946)
• "Why I Write" (1946)
• "The Prevention of Literature" (1946)
• "Such, Such Were the Joys" (1946)
• "Lear, Tolstoy and the Fool" (1947)
• "Reflections on Gandhi" (1949)
• "Bookshop Memories" (1936)
• "The Moon Under Water" (1946)
• "Rudyard Kipling" (1942)
• "Raffles and Miss Blandish" (1944)

[edit] Poetry

• Untitled poem, 1914 poem published in local newspaper
• Kitchener, 1916
• The Pagan, 1918
• Our Hearts Are Married, But We Are Too Young, 1918
• Ironic Poem about Prostitution
• The Lesser Evil
• Poem from Burma, 1922
• A Little Poem, 1936

Some or all works by this author are in the public domain in the United States because they were published before January 1, 1923. The author died in 1950, so works by this author are also in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 50 years or less. Works by this author may also be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.