The life
Eric Blair served in the Indian Imperial Police in Burma, was shot in the throat in Spain, and died of tuberculosis at forty-six having written the two most cited political fables in English. He insisted prose should be a window rather than stained glass.
He made political language itself a subject of literature.
Annotated here2 texts
NovelPost-war
Nineteen Eighty-Four
George Orwell · 1949
A state that does not just punish dissent but edits the language you dissent in.
Demanding · Study guideExplore→
NovellaPost-war
Animal Farm
George Orwell · 1945
A revolution that becomes a management problem, then a dictatorship.
Gentle · Study guideExplore→