[Salman]

A bit of Orwell for your enjoyment. He wasn't exclusively a political writer.

[KantianBurke]

If you think you had it bad in school, read his essay "Such,such were the joys." :>

[RightWingAtheist]

Norman Podhoretz once related how Orwell was verbally attacked during a speech by a young pacifist and communist named Alex Comfort, who later wrote the notorious Joy of Sex (an important rite of passage for all Gen-Xers is stumbling upon this book in your parent's bedroom :-)