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Famous writers, writing… George Orwell

Eric Blair, aka George Orwell 1945

Animal Farm was the first adult book I read, as an eleven-year old, and I have retained a fondness for Orwell’s writing ever since. Like Hemingway he is another journalist-turned-author, both share a clarity of language I admire. George Orwell said:
“The great enemy of clear language is insincerity”

Read the first paragraph of Animal Farm and 1984.

‘Animal Farm’ by George Orwell [UK: Penguin Modern Classics] Buy now

See these other famous people, reading & writing:-
Ernest Hemingway
Iris Murdoch
William Golding

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Garrulous Gwendoline December 30, 2013 at 12:22 pm

I once read his complete works. I was a bit down in the dumps at the time …. He didn’t cheer me up, but he is certainly a thought provoking author……..
- sandradan1 December 30, 2013 at 1:41 pm
  
  Wow respect! I’ve never read them back-to-back! SD
cleopatralovesbooks December 29, 2013 at 11:24 am

I too read Animal Farm in school but have an especial fondness for 1984, which I read at school in 1984 (slightly nerdish fact, I know!)
- sandradan1 December 30, 2013 at 9:27 am
  
  I read that later, 1979-ish when I read English at university in London. Still have the copy! SD
  - cleopatralovesbooks December 30, 2013 at 12:57 pm
    
    Mine must have been mass-produced for the whole year to read at school but I have a newer copy!
    - sandradan1 December 30, 2013 at 1:44 pm
      
      Mine is a Penguin paperback with a front cover photograph by Humphrey Sutton of a faceless man in a black leather jacket, raising a red megaphone to his face. Quite spooky. The ‘Animal Farm’ cover is great too: a detail of a Joan Miro painting called ‘The Tilled Field’. I do love a good book cover! SD
      - cleopatralovesbooks December 30, 2013 at 1:58 pm
        
        Me too! You can’t beat a good cover especially for those really loved books!

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