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George Orwell was a British novelist, essayist, and journalist whose real name was Eric Arthur Blair.
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George Orwell was a British novelist, essayist, and journalist whose real name was Eric Arthur Blair.
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His representative works "Animal Farm" were published in 1945 and "1984" in 1949.
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In 1938 he published "Homage to Catalonia", documenting his participation in the Spanish Civil War.
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