Eric Arthur Blair, who wrote under the pseudonym of George Orwell, was born in Motihari, Bengal, British occupied India, in 1903. He mastered the art of satire and political writing and was one of England's most influential political writers in the 40's. A staunch supporter of the Socialist Party, he wrote for the common man.  George Orwell penned numerous essays, short stories, novels and poems before his death in 1950.

Collections of Essays

Orwell, known for his honesty and insight, wrote many well known and well respected essays. His essays have been put into collections including, England Your England and Other Essays, Shooting the Elephant and Other Essays, and Critical Essays. In his essays, he wrote critiques of authors and political figures, political thought, and English culture and values. His essay collections include:

• Critical Essays
• England Your England and Other Essays
• Shooting An Elephant and Other Essays

Essays Written By George Orwell

Before becoming a writer, George Orwell returned to India where he followed in his father's footsteps and joined the Indian Imperial Police Force. While in India he came to love the Burmese people and became disillusioned in English Imperialism. After five years service in the police force, Orwell resigned and traveled to Paris to try his hand at writing. A number of his essays were influenced by this time in his life.

• "Antisemitism in Britain"
• "The Art of Donald McGill"
• "Arthur Koestler"
• "Benefit of Clergy"
• "Books v. Cigarettes"
• "Bookshop Memories"
• "Boys Weeklies"
• "Charles Dickens"
• "Charles Reade"
• "Confessions of a Book Reviewer"
• "Decline of the English Murder"
• "Down the Mine":
• "England Your England"
• "Freedom of the Park"
• "Future of a Ruined Germany"
• "Good Bad Books"
• "Good Word for the Vicar of Bray, A"
• "Hanging, A"
• "How the Poor Die"
• "In Defence of P.G. Wodehouse"
• "Inside the Whale – I – II - III"
• "Lear, Tolstoy, and the Fool"
• "Looking Back on the Spanish War"
• "Mark Twain, The Licensed Jester"
• "Marrakech"
• "Nice Cup of Tea, A"
• "Nonsense Poetry"
• "North and South"
• "Notes on Nationalism"
• "Pleasure Spots"
• "Poetry and a Microphone"
• "Politics and the English Language"
• "Politics vs. Literature: An Examination of Gulliver’s Travels"
• "Prevention of Literature, The"
• "Raffles and Miss Blandish"
• "Reflections on Gandhi"
• "Revenge is Sour"
• "Riding Down From Bangor"
• "Rudyard Kipling"
• "Second Thoughts on James Burnham"
• "Shooting an Elephant"
• "Some Thoughts on the Common Toad"
• "Spike, The"
• "Spilling the Spanish Beans"
• "Sporting Spirit, The"
• "Such, Such Were the Joys"
• "W. B. Yeats"
• "Wells, Hitler and the World State"
• "Why I Write"
• "Writers and Leviathan"
• "You and the Atomic Bomb"

Non-Fiction Writings by George Orwell

George Orwell was a well respected journalist and essayist. His non-fiction works are excellent examples of English writing. They are hard hitting and written in a conversational tone. Taken from his own life experiences, the stories reflect his leftist ideology. His book, Homage to Catalonia, is included in Random House's list of "100 Best Non-Fiction" books.

• "As I Please" editorials in Tribune
• Down and Out in Paris and London
• Homage to Catalonia
• The Road to Wigan Pier

Novels Written by George Orwell

George Orwell is most well known for his novels Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four. Even though Orwell was a socialist, he disliked the Soviet Communist Party. In Animal Farm, Orwell used a fable to symbolize the history of the Communist Party in Soviet Russia. Nineteen Eighty-Four was a dystopian novel that warned of the problems of a totalitarian government.  

• Animal Farm
• Burmese Days
• Clergyman's Daughter, A
• Coming Up For Air
• Keep The Aspidistra Flying
• Nineteen Eighty-Four  

Verse

George Orwell is not usually associated with poetry, but as a young boy he dreamed of becoming a poet. He began to write poetry while in school and two of his published poems were written under his real name, Eric Blair. A number of his essays are about poetry and many of his essays include it.

• Awake! Young Men of England 
• Ironic Poem About Prostitution
• Kitchener 
• Lesser Evil, The 
• Little Poem, A 
• Our Minds are Married, But We are Too Young
• Pagan, The 
• Poem From Burma