Male : Novelist, Satirist & essayist. Fought and was wounded in the Spanish Civil War. Lived on Jura 1946-1949. After his first wife died he married Sonia Brownell (1918-1980) in 1949. Within 3 months Orwell was dead of TB. He is buried at Sutton Courtenay, Oxfordshire

Nationality : English Place of Birth : India

Date of Birth : 1903 Date of Death : 1950 Age : 47

Pseudonyms : Eric Arthur Blair

Other Work : 1922-1928 Indian Imperial Police in Burma

Education : Eton

1933-1940
Down and Out in Paris and London (1933 Gollancz 8/6) - 1500 copies (1933 Harper) - 1750 copies
(1940 Penguin) - 55,000 copies
Burmese Days (1934 Harper) - 2000 copies (1935 Gollancz) - 2500 copies
(In) The Best Poems of 1934 (Cape 1934)
A Clergyman's Daughter (1935 Gollancz) - 2000 copies (1936 Harper) - c1000 copies
Keep the Aspidistra Flying (1936 Gollancz) - 3000 copies (1956 Harcourt Brace)
[Filmed in 1997]
The Road to Wigan Pier (1937 Left Book Club) - 43,690 copies
(1937 Gollancz) - Public Edition 1st Issue - 1,750 copies
(1937 Gollancz / Left Book Club) - Public Edition 2nd Issue - 200 copies
(1958 Harcourt Brace)
Homage to Catalonia (1938 Secker & Warburg) - 4500 copies (1952 Harcourt Brace)
Coming Up for Air (1939 Gollancz) - 2000 copies (1950 HB) - 8000 copies
Inside the Whale & other Essays (1940 Gollancz) - 1000 copies
Offered in 1999 for £760

1941-1945
The Lion and the Unicorn : Socialism and the English Genius (1941 Searchlight Books No 1)
(1941 Secker & Warburg) - 7500 copies
(Ed) The End of the Old School Tie by T C Worsley (1941 Searchlight Books No 5) - pb
(Ed) The Case for African Freedom by Joyce Carey (1941 Searchlight Books No 11) - pb
(In) (Ed) Victor Gollancz : Betrayal of the Left (1941 Gollancz) - 1300 copies
(In) "Horizon" : 'The Art of Donald McGill' (Vol IV. Sept 1941)
(In) Victory Over Vested Interest (1942 Routledge & Kegan Paul) - 6,311 copies
(In) Modern Essays 1939-41 (1942 Macmillan)
(Intro) Talking to India (1943 Allen & Unwin)
Burmese Days (1944 Penguin) - 60,000 copies
Animal Farm : A Fairy Story (1945 Secker & Warburg) - 4500 copies (1946 Harcourt Brace)
[Cape, Faber & Gollancz turned this down for fear of upsetting the Soviet Union]
[UK First sold for £1200 at Sotheby's in 2000]
[Filmed in 1955
(1954 Secker) (1954 Halas & Bachelor) - illustrated version
(In) Junior (1945 Hutchinson)
(In) Little Reviews Anthology (1945 Reader's Union/Allen & Unwin)

1946-1950
(In) Focus Two (1946 Dennis Dobson)
James Burnham and the Managerial Revolution (1946 Socialist Book Centre 1946) - 3000 copies
Critical Essays (1946 Secker & Warburg) - 3,028 copies
Dickens, Dali & Others (1946 Reynal NY) - same as above. 5000 copies
(Intro) Love of Life by John C London (1946 Paul Elek)
The English People (1947 Collins Britain in Pictures No. 100) - 26,000 copies
(Ed) British Pamphleteers : No 1 (1948 Allan Wingate) - with Reginald Reynolds
Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949 Secker & Warburg) 25,000 copies
[This was issued in two dustwrappers, a green one and a red one.]
[It didn't become a bestseller until it was adapted for TV by Nigel Kneale in 1954]
(1949 Harcourt Brace)
Offered in 1999 for £975
(1999 Secker & Warburg £20) - Alex Williamson
[Filmed in 1955 & 1984]
Shooting an Elephant & Other Essays (1950 S & W) - 7,530 copies
(1950 Harcourt Brace) - 4000 copies

1951-1960
(In) Pleasures of New Writing : An Anthology of Poems, Stories, Prose, etc (1952 John Lehmann)
Such, Such Were the Joys (1953 Harcourt Brace, US)
England Your England & Other Essays (1953 S & W 12/6) - same as above
The Orwell Reader (1956 Harcourt Brace, US)
Selected Essays (1957 Penguin) - pb
Selected Essays (1957 Penguin)
Selected Writings (1958 Heinemann)

After 1961
Collected Essays (1961 Secker)
Decline of the English Murder & Other Essays (1965 Penguin) - pb
The Collected Essays, Journalism & Letters (1968 S & W) - 4 vols
(1968 Harcourt, Brace) - edited by Sonia Orwell & Ian Angus
Vol 1 : An Age Like This 1920 - 1940
Vol 2 : My Country Right or Left 1940 - 1943
Vol 3 : As I Please 1943 - 1945
Vol 4 : In Front of Your Nose 1943 - 1945
The Penguin Complete Longer Non-Fiction of George Orwell (1983 Penguin) - pb
Orwell - The War Broadcasts (Ed by W J West) (1985 Duckworth/BBC)
Orwell - The War Commentaries (Ed by W J West) (1985 Duckworth/BBC)
The Works (1986 Secker & Warburg) - 14 vols (1996 Secker & Warburg) - 14 vols in slipcase

READING
Unpublished Notebooks (1950 World Review, London) - an edition devoted entirely to Orwell
Z G Zeke & W White : George Orwell - A Selected Bibliography (1962 Boston)
Peter Stansky & William Abrahams : The Crystal Spirit - A Study of George Orwell (1967 Cape)
George Woodcock : The Unknown Orwell (1972 Constable)
Peter Lewis : George Orwell - The Road to Wigan Pier (1981 Heinemann)
T R Fyvel : George Orwell - A Personal Memoir (1982 Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
Bernard Crick : George Orwell - A Life (1980 Secker & Warburg £10) (1992 Penguin)
Audrey Coppard & Bernard Crick : Orwell Remembered (1984 BBC)
Michael Shelden : Orwell - The Authorised Biography (1991 Heinemann)
Jeffrey Myers : George Orwell (2000 Norton £19.95)
Hilary Spurling : The Girl from the Fiction Department - A Portrait of Sonia Orwell
(2002 Hamish Hamilton £9.99)
D J Taylor : Orwell - The Life (2003 Chatto & Windus £20)
Gordon Bowker : George Orwell (2003 Little Brown £20)
Emma Larkin : Secret Histories - Finding George Orwell in a Burmese Teashop (2004 John Murray £18.99)