George Orwell: A Sage for All Seasons

George Orwell’s official biographer walks you through the author’s life and times, and reveals the powerful lessons of Animal Farm, Nineteen Eighty-Four, and other enduring masterpieces.

• By This Professor
• 01: The Real George Orwell
• 02: George Orwell, Child of the British Empire
• 03: Orwell’s Edwardian Idyll
• 04: Orwell’s Unsentimental Education
• 05: Orwell, Eton, and Privilege
• 06: Orwell the Policeman
• 07: Orwell and the Imperial Burden
• 08: Orwell’s Lost Generation
• 09: Orwell, Poet of Poverty
• 10: Orwell and the Battle of Fact and Fiction
• 11: Orwell and England in the 1930s
• 12: Orwell and the Left
• 13: Orwell and the Spanish Crucible
• 14: Totalitarianism and Lessons of Barcelona
• 15: Orwell and the Last Days of Peace
• 16: Orwell at the Outbreak of World War
• 17: Orwell and the Art of Propaganda
• 18: Orwell and the Cultural Underground
• 19: Orwell and the Fight for Animal Farm
• 20: Orwell’s Wife and the Life of Writing
• 21: Politics and the English Language
• 22: Orwell’s Island Escape
• 23: 1984: Big Brother and the Thought Police
• 24: Orwell’s Long Farewell