George Orwell
(1903–1950)

The pen name of Eric Arthur Blair, an English essayist and novelist

George Orwell

For a complete listing of Orwell's work, see Bibliography of George Orwell.

Works

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Books

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  • Down and Out in Paris and London (1933)—Copyrighted in the United States until 2029 due to Renewal R265227
  • Burmese Days (1934)—Copyrighted in the United States until 2030 due to Renewal R297090
  • A Clergyman's Daughter (1935)
  • Keep the Aspidistra Flying (1936)
  • The Road to Wigan Pier (1937)
  • Homage to Catalonia (1938)—Copyrighted in the United States until 2034 due to Renewal RE056120
  • Coming Up for Air (1939)
  • Animal Farm (1945)—Copyrighted in the United States until 2041 due to Renewal R554145
  • Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949)—Copyrighted in the United States until 2045 due to Renewal R641953

Essays

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  • "The Spike" (1931)
  • "A Hanging" (1931)
  • "Shooting an Elephant" (1936)
  • "Bookshop Memories" (1936)
  • "Charles Dickens" (1939)
  • "Boys' Weeklies" (1940)
  • "Inside the Whale" (1940)
  • "The Lion and the Unicorn: Socialism and the English Genius" (1941)
  • "Wells, Hitler and the World State" (1941)
  • "The Art of Donald McGill" (1941)
  • "Rudyard Kipling" (1942)
  • "Looking Back on the Spanish War" (1943)
  • "W. B. Yeats" (1943)
  • "Benefit of Clergy: Some notes on Salvador Dali" (1944)
  • "Arthur Koestler" (1944)
  • "Raffles and Miss Blandish" (1944)
  • "Notes on Nationalism" (1945)
  • "The Sporting Spirit" (1945)
  • "How the Poor Die" (1946)
  • "A Nice Cup of Tea" (1946)
  • "Politics vs. Literature: An Examination of Gulliver's Travels" (1946)
  • "Politics and the English Language" (1946)
  • "Second Thoughts on James Burnham" (1946)
  • "Decline of the English Murder" (1946)
  • "Some Thoughts on the Common Toad"—Copyrighted in the United States until 2041 due to Renewal R559888
  • "A Good Word for the Vicar of Bray" (1946)—Copyrighted in the United States until 2041 due to Renewal R559887
  • "In Defence of P. G. Wodehouse" (1946)
  • "Why I Write" (1946)
  • "The Prevention of Literature" (1946)
  • "Such, Such Were the Joys" (1946)
  • "The Moon Under Water" (1946)
  • "Lear, Tolstoy and the Fool" (1947)
  • "Reflections on Gandhi" (1949)

Poetry

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Other

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Some or all works by this author are in the public domain in the United States because they were published before January 1, 1929.


This author died in 1950, so works by this author are in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 73 years or less. These works may be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.

 

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