George Orwell's Important Works

Down and Out was the first novel of George Orwell. This novel was based off of Orwell's experience living porrer than he grew up. He chose to live amongts the people who lived on the streets of London and Paris. The target audiance was the middle to upper class members of the society. Orwell was trying to educate the educated on the poverty in the two most expensive cities in Europe. The first half of the novel takes place in Paris and the second half in London

Burmese Days Set in Kyauktada in Upper Burma (a fictional place), the novel tells the story of Flory a English timber merchant who has spent his adult life in Burma. The novel focuses on the lonely Flory’s search for a wife, as well as the election of the first native member to the Kyauktada European Club.

Homage to Catalonia was the first book after Orwell wrote after he changed his political view to socialism. It is about personal Orwell's account of his experiences and observations fighting for the POUM militia of the Republican army during the Spanish Civil War. In additon to his experience, he writes about the struggle between democracy and Fascism.

Animal Farm isa take on the Russian Revolution and The betrayal of Joseph Stalin. It is about a group of barnyard animals overthrow and chase off their human owners and set up their own animal society. Eventually the pigs in the story form a dictatorship whose bondage is even more oppressive and heartless than that of their former human masters. (“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”) is essentially the message of the book.

Nineteen Eighty-Four can be clasified as a dystopian novel. It was the last novel written by Orwell. It is set nearly 40 years after the end of World War 2, and a few years after the so-called Atomic Wars, Winston Smith  is a middle-aged man who endures a grimy existence in the totalitarian state of Oceania under the constant surveillance of the Thought Police.