[QUOTE=Mike Lyle
For example, are younger people aware that George Orwell wrote
anything apart from Animal Farm and 1984?[

Almost certainly not, and if so, it's a pity.
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If I were to think about such a thing, then in all probability, I could.

...The was of the Worlds??
Sorry, that was Orson Welles wasn't it??
Getting the Orwell and Orson mixed up (oops).

All we did at School was the likes of Shakespere, and lots of Scottish authors and poets, such as Liz Lochhead, Crichgton, and many others.

Not to mention WW1 poets like Sassoon and Owen....

Hardly a massive variation though.

I do know however, that Orwell wrote 1984 in 1948, and ended up living alone on Jura until he died in 1950ish/something.