Author:George Orwell

George Orwell
(1903–1950)

George Orwell

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

Works

Books

• 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

• "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

• "Awake! Young Men of England" (1914)
• "Kitchener" (1916)
• "The Pagan" (1918)
• "Our Hearts Are Married, But We Are Too Young" (1918)
• "The Wounded Cricketer (Not by Walt Whitman)" (1920)
• "Suggested by a Tooth Paste Advertisement" (1922)
• "The Lesser Evil" (1924)
• "Romance" (1925)
• "Summer-like for an Instant" (1933)
• "Sometimes in the Middle Autumn Days" (1933-03)
• "A Dressed Man and a Naked Man" (1933-10)
• "On a Ruined Farm Near the His Master's Voice Gramophone Factory" (1934-04)
• "A Happy Vicar I Might Have Been" (1935)
• "Ironic Poem about Prostitution" (1935)
• "A Little Poem" (1935)
• "As One Non-Combatant to Another" (1943-06-18)

Other

• The Man and the Maid (c. 1916–1918, incomplete play)
• "The Vernon Murders" (c. 1916–1918, incomplete story)
• Free Will (1918, a one-act play)