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Eric Arthur Blair was an English 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
Orwell in 1943
Orwell's birthplace in Motihari, Bihar, India
The Blair family home at Shiplake, Oxfordshire
Blair's time at St Cyprian's School inspired his essay "Such, Such Were the Joys".
Winston Smith is a fictional character and the protagonist of George Orwell's dystopian 1949 novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. He was employed by Orwell as an everyman character. He is an unremarkable indiv
Winston Smith portrayed by John Hurt in the 1984 film Nineteen Eighty-Four
Orwell at the BBC