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George Orwell was the pseudonym of Eric Arthur Blair
I "I (1903-50), novelist, essayist and journalist. Orwell was
V^J toorn in Bengal and educated in England. In 1922 he
joined the Imperial Police in Burma (now Myanmar), serving for
five years before his mounting dislike of imperialism induced
him to resign. He returned to a series of ill-paid jobs in Paris, then
ton don, living in fairly severe poverty before becoming a regular
r contributor to TfieAdeiphi from 1930. His first book, Down and
Out in Paris and London (1933) described these early
experiences and was followed by Burmese Days (1934), a novel
which reflected his indignation over political injustice.
However; Animal farm (1945) and Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949)
have remained His most popular worfo. -George Orwell died of
tuberculosis.
1984 has come and gone, but George Orwell's prophetic,
¦tlingly original and haunting novel
fbrld that is completely convincing,
he last four words. No one can deny...
Tovább
Fülszöveg
George Orwell was the pseudonym of Eric Arthur Blair
I "I (1903-50), novelist, essayist and journalist. Orwell was
V^J toorn in Bengal and educated in England. In 1922 he
joined the Imperial Police in Burma (now Myanmar), serving for
five years before his mounting dislike of imperialism induced
him to resign. He returned to a series of ill-paid jobs in Paris, then
ton don, living in fairly severe poverty before becoming a regular
r contributor to TfieAdeiphi from 1930. His first book, Down and
Out in Paris and London (1933) described these early
experiences and was followed by Burmese Days (1934), a novel
which reflected his indignation over political injustice.
However; Animal farm (1945) and Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949)
have remained His most popular worfo. -George Orwell died of
tuberculosis.
1984 has come and gone, but George Orwell's prophetic,
¦tlingly original and haunting novel
fbrld that is completely convincing,
he last four words. No one can deny
»agination of whole generations, or
the power of its admonitions—a power that seems to grow not
lessen, with the passage of time.
Vissza