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George Orwell: Diaries

George Orwell

‘A jagged stone skimming across ice makes exactly the same sound as a redshank whistling.’

George Orwell

George Orwell was a novelist, critic, essayist and poet, and one of England’s most renowned writers of the twentieth century. His best-known works are Nineteen Eighty-Four, a dystopian portrait of a totalitarian state, and Animal Farm, an allegory of communism.

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