Eric Arthur Blair

June 25, 1903, Motihari, Bengal,

India
—
January 21, 1950, London,
England
 LIFE
FAMILY: ‘lower-upper
middle class’: ‘upper-middle class
without money’

MENTOR: Aldous Huxley

WORK: Indian Imperial Police, BBC

FIRST BOOK: 'Down and Out in Paris

and London’ (1933)
SUBJECT: Anti-fascism, anti-
Stalinism, democratic socialism, literary
criticism, news, polemic

GENRE: Dystopia, roman à clef,

satire
THE MOST FAMOUS
NOVELS
1935 1936 1939 1945 1949

Nonfiction
•1933 – Down and Out in Paris and London
•1937 – The Road to Wigan Pier
•1938 – Homage to Catalonia
 1984
YEAR: 1948
GENRE: Dystopia, roman à clef,
satire
SUBJECT: In a totalitarian future
society, a man, whose daily work is re-
writing history, tries to rebel by falling in
love.
PLOT
 Who controls the past
controls the future. Who
controls the present controls
the past.
‘Perhaps one did not
want to be loved so
much as to be
understood’
Freedom is the freedom to say that two
plus two make four. If that is granted, all
 The best books… are
those that tell you what
you know already.
 The choice for mankind lies between
freedom and happiness and for the great
bulk of mankind, happiness is better.
DO IT TO
JULIA!
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BEGINNING