British educational publishing company offers a short bio and sections from some of his essays, including "Charles Dickens" and "Why I write."
Essay on the novelist Gissing was written in 1948 for a magazine but wasn't published until after Orwell's death. Read the full text.
Includes text downloads of "Animal Farm" and "1984" and links to other Orwell sites.
Read an indexed and searchable e-text of Orwell's classic story of Big Brother.
Chapter indexed and searchable etext of the barnyard satire by George Orwell. Includes a brief overview.
Read excerpts from "Politics and the English Language" in which Orwell gives advice on how to write clear, expository prose.
Find a selection of essays, letters, and newspaper columns expressing the writer's complex political viewpoints. Includes Orwell links.
Author's great exploration of language and writing as a political tool and act, respectively, appears in plain text.
Particular online version of Orwell's 1946 essay is notable for the editor's note at the beginning that mentions the context of its writing.
Essay that appeared in 1946 connects freedom of thought and the relative health of literature, saying that when one dies so does the other.