BURMESE DAYS (1934)- Mainly about british imperialism before World War II It is based loosely on Orwell's five years as a police officer in the Indian Imperial Police force in Burma.
A CLERGYMAN'S DAUGHTER (1935)- It tells the story of Dorothy Hare, the clergyman's daughter of the title, whose life is turned upside-down when she suffers an attack of amnesia.The theme of slavery is one that mirrors that of dependency.
KEEP THE ASPIDISTRA (1936)- The main theme is the protagonist's romantic ambition to give up money and status, and the squalid life that results. It talks mainly about poverty.
COMING UP FOR AIR (1939)- published before World War II and predicting that conflict. It is written in the first person, with George Bowling, the forty-five-year-old protagonist, telling the reader his life story.
ANIMAL FARM (1945)- The book uses animals instead of people and talks about socialism.
NINETEEN EIGHTY FOUR (1949)- It is about life under a futuristic totalitarian regime in the year 1984.
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