Author · 1903–1950

George Orwell

English novelist and essayist, born Eric Arthur Blair.

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21 min: in total

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1984

George Orwell · 1949

Orwell's 1949 novel follows Winston Smith in a state where the party controls language, history, and thought. The brief covers the mechanics of totalitarian control, what Orwell gets right about power, and which parts of the book hold up.

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Animal Farm

George Orwell · 1945

Orwell's 1945 allegory of the Russian Revolution told through a farmyard coup. The brief covers the revolution, the factions, how the pigs consolidate power, and why it reads as a prophecy more than fiction.