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Orwell, George

  1. The nom de plume of Eric Blair, a twentieth-century English author best known for Animal Farmand Nineteen Eighty-Four.


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Notes

Nineteen Eighty-Four is a powerful depiction of totalitarianism ; hence, the adjective Orwellian has been applied to government actions that suppress freedom or distort truth.

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Example Sentences

Ironically, Brand sees himself as an ideological soulmate of George Orwell, whose books are banned in Cuba.

The ghost of George Orwell may be conjured too readily and too often, these days, but this truly is Orwellian.

So she has chosen the path as her literary heroes, Charles Dickens and George Orwell: the entertaining but didactic novel.

The letter is reprinted from George Orwell: A Life in Letters, edited by Peter Davison and published this week by Liveright.

Reprinted from George Orwell: A Life in Letters, selected and annotated by Peter Davison.

Oswald was not reading but did advise me to read George Orwell's "1984" which I read at that time.

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