Richard Blair was speaking on the 120th anniversary of the writer's birth. He was adopted by Eric Blair - better known by his pen name of George Orwell. Orwell's novel 1984 was the origin of the ...

Orwell, real name Eric Blair, penned classics such as Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), Animal Farm (1945) and Down and Out in Paris and London (1933). Books that are still widely read and highly ...