He attended Eton, where he was bullied by other boys and had a generally lousy time. Orwell was born in 1903 into the impoverished middle class. He took his pen name from a river south of his home town, the industrial town of Wigan. On his deathbed he was hashing out the idea for another book-a novella entitled 'A Smoking Room Story'-in which he would revisit Burma, a place he had not been to since his youth.īook: “Burmese Days” by George Orwell George Orwell’s Life Many his best works are pieces on Socialism and Capitalism that still ring true decades after they were written.
Orwell was an astute journalist, great essayist and superb literary critic, but he was at his best addressing social and political issues.
Orwell was an incredibly prolific writer-his complete works takes up 20 volumes-especially when you consider that he died a the age of 46. “Big Brother” and “Newspeak” were words he coined. Orwell has such an impact on our way of defining the world that the adjective "Orwellian" was coined to describe anything that smacks of totalitarianism and authoritarianism. Few writers have made such bold predictions and had many of them come true. A prolific writer, who produced numerous journalistic pieces and political essays, before he penned his famous novels, “1984" and “Animal Farm”, he an extraordinary ability to cut through all the bullshit and write about what was really going on. Orwell has been described as one of the most influential writers of the modern world. Even today, closed societies such as North Korea are described as "Orwellian". The latter depicts a nightmarish totalitarian nation. His novels "Animal Farm" and "1984" were published in 19, respectively. He fought against the fascist dicatorship of Franco in the Spanish Civil War, which began in 1936. After graduating from Eton College in England, he worked in Burma. George Orwell (1903-1950) was born as Eric Blair in British India. He wrote the “past belongs to those who control the present” and described Mandalay as a rather disagreeable town-“it is dusty and intolerable hot and it said to have five main products that begin with P, namely pagodas, pariahs, pigs, priests, and prostitutes.” George Orwell served in the Indian Imperial Police in Burma for five years from 1922 to 1927, an experience that was the inspiration for his 1934 novel “Burmese Days.” He worked as a colonial police officer in northern Burma in the 1920s.
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