“If people cannot write well,

they cannot think well, and if they

cannot think well, others will do their thinking

for them.”

Eric Arthur Blair who used the pen name George Orwell, was an English novelist, essayist, journalist, and critic. His work is marked by lucid prose, awareness of social injustice, opposition to totalitarianism, and

outspoken support of democratic socialism.

Orwell wrote literary criticism, poetry, fiction, and polemical journalism. He is perhaps best known

for his dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) and the allegorical

novella Animal Farm (1945).

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