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[[File:orwellbbc2.jpg|frame| George Orwell reporting for the Ministry of Tru... I mean the BBC]]

Real name Eric Blair, George Orwell (1903-1950) was the one of the most influential authors in the English language.

A socialist all his life, but his views changed somewhat over time and his dislike of Soviet communism was ''very'' clear. Orwell, a journalist, participated in the Spanish Civil War [[Doomed Moral Victor|on the side of the Republicans]], serving in the party militia of the P.O.U.M. or Party of Marxist Worker's Unification <ref>Note that he didn't care for the POUM's ideology very much - he only ended up in its militia because he had come to Spain via the British ILP, which was affiliated with the POUM</ref>, and even got ''shot in the throat'' ([[Only a Flesh Wound|an experience that he would go on to describe as "interesting"]]). [[Deadpan Snarker|His works]] [[Crapsack World|tend to be]] [[Black and Gray Morality|considered cynical.]] The term "Orwellian" is named after his famous works of [[Crapsack World|dystopian]] fiction, particularly ''[[Nineteen Eighty -Four]]''.

* ''[[Nineteen Eighty -Four]]''

* [[We Will Use Wiki Words in Thethe Future]]

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** [[AirstripLanguage OneEquals Thought]]

** [[LanguagePeople's EqualsRepublic Thoughtof Tyranny]]

* [[Four Legs Good, Two Legs Better]]

* [[WrittenbytheWritten by the Winners]]