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Who Was George Orwell?

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War Injury and Tuberculosis

Literary Critic and BBC Producer

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1903-1950

Who Was George Orwell?

George Orwell, pseudonym for Eric Arthur Blair, was a novelist, essayist, and critic best known for his novels Animal Farm and 1984 . He was a man of strong opinions who addressed some of the major political movements of his time, including imperialism, fascism, and communism.

His foresight into how easily a democracy can slide into totalitarianism inspired the word “Orwellian,” according to the Oxford English Dictionary , especially the totalitarian state he wrote about in 1984 . If a person finds themselves in a fascist or nightmarish politica

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