| Andrew Arthur Blair (he adopted the pen name George Orwell) was born in June 25, 1903 in Bengal, India. Orwell's two best-known novels, Animal Fram (1945) and Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), presented solitary anti-heroes battling against a totalitarian regime. Both reflected his lifelong distrust for war, class systems and autocratic governments. His more than 700 political and critical essays, book reviews and radio commentatatries as well as nine novels and works of nonfiction, depict the world as he saw it. |