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About AuthorEric Arthur Blair
25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950
Born in eastern India
Son of a British colonial civil servant
Educated in England
English novelist and journalist
The 20th century’s best chronicler of English culture
Wrote literary criticism, poetry, fiction
and polemical journalism
His work is marked by
• Clarity
• Awareness of social injustice
• Opposition to totalitarianism
• Commitment to democratic socialism
His work continues to influence popular & political culture
Term “Orwellian” has entered the language together with
several of his neologisms, including-
Cold War, Big Brother, thought police, Room 101, Double
think & thought crime
About Book Animal Farm is an allegorical and dystopian novel
Published in England on 17 August 1945
The book reflects events leading up to the Russian
Revolution of 1917 and then on into the Stalin era in the
Soviet Union
The original title was Animal Farm: A Fairy Story
Orwell wrote the book from November 1943–February
1944
Efforts to find Publisher
Initially rejected by a number of British and American
publishers
He encountered great difficulty getting the manuscript
published
It became a great commercial success when it did finally
appear partly because the Cold War so quickly
followed World War II
The novel addresses not only the corruption of the
revolution by its leaders, but also the ways wickedness,
indifference, ignorance, greed, and myopia corrupt the
revolution.
It also shows how potential ignorance and indifference to
problems within a revolution could allow horrors to happen
if a smooth transition to a people's government is not
achieved