George Orwell · George Orwell: The Throat of Truth

George Orwell - George Orwell: The Throat of Truth

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The writer who survived a bullet through the throat and gave power a name. A memento mori obituary comic centered on Shot through the throat by a sniper in the Spanish Civil War in 1937; survived to write Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four before dying of tuberculosis in 1950.

Citable Summary

George Orwell (1903–1950) is featured in an obituary comic about mortality, work, and what remains.
The comic centers on this mortality event: Shot through the throat by a sniper in the Spanish Civil War in 1937; survived to write Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four before dying of tuberculosis in 1950.
The reader version includes image pages, a PDF, and sources including Britannica; The Orwell Foundation; NEH.

Story Notes

This comic follows George Orwell, The writer who survived a bullet through the throat and gave power a name.

The story turns on Shot through the throat by a sniper in the Spanish Civil War in 1937; survived to write Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four before dying of tuberculosis in 1950, treating that encounter with death as the pressure point for the work that followed.

The source trail for this page includes Britannica; The Orwell Foundation; NEH.

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Britannica
The Orwell Foundation
NEH

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