Substack will serialize the writings of George Orwell

Some of George Orwell’s most famous works are coming to online publishing platform Substack.

The Orwell Foundation will launch Orwell Daily, which will serialize at least some of the authors’ famous and other books for free.

Orwell Daily On October 28, his debut novel, Down And Out In Paris And London, opens with the author’s exposure to poverty in two of the world’s richest cities.

Over the next few weeks, substacks will run around 1,000-1,500 word excerpts.

“We’re here to commemorate and celebrate, to get people thinking about Orwell,” said foundation director Jean Seaton.

George Orwell – the pseudonym of Eric Arthur Blair – is best known for his 1945 fable, Animal Farm, and his dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, published in 1949, That is, the year before his death.

Admirers often cite the British author in warnings of the decline of democracy, but the foundation also hopes to raise awareness of his writing in “The Homelessness of Paris and London,” first published in 1933.

“This is his first real reportage,” Orwell’s son Richard Blair said in a statement released Friday.

“Orwell wanted to see what it was like to be in the gutter – what it was like to be seen as a ‘tramp’.

“You can extract many miniature papers, but it’s also very descriptive. It grabs you.

“There’s also a certain level of humor, which is important. He puts you together with the people he writes about.”

Foundation program officer Jeremy Wikeley said future serializations will be announced later this year.

Many old and new works have been serialized on Substack.

They range from Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein to contemporary versions such as Anand Giridharadas’ The True American: Murder And Mystery In Texas.

Substack newsletters such as Dracula Daily and Edgar Allan Poe Daily are entirely dedicated to excerpts from a given book or author.

The Orwell Foundation, which also oversees the Substack newsletter for Orwell news and commentary, recently announced the Orwell Report Homeless Awards.

The foundation said the award, a partnership with the Center for Homelessness Impact, “will celebrate the art of evidence-driven storytelling, accurate investigation and innovative policy reporting.”