Nineteen Eighty-Four

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George Orwell (whose real name was Eric Blair) was born
in India in 1903, and was educated at Eton. His subsequent
career was very varied, and it will be noted that much of
his writing is a record of his experiences. From 1922 to
1928 he served in Burma in the Indian Imperial Police. For
the next two years he lived in Paris, and then came to
England as a school-teacher. Later he worked in a book-
shop. In 1937 he went to Spain to fight for the Republicans
and was wounded. During World War II he was a member
of the Home Guard and worked for the B.B.C. In 1943 he
joined the staff of Tribune, contributing a regular page of
political and literary commentary, As I Please. He later
became a regular contributor to The Observer, for which
newspaper went as special correspondent to France and
Germany. He was taken seriously ill in the winter of
1948-9 and died in London in January 1950. His first wife
had died in |945. Shortly before his death he married Sonia
Brownell, at... Tovább

Fülszöveg

George Orwell (whose real name was Eric Blair) was born
in India in 1903, and was educated at Eton. His subsequent
career was very varied, and it will be noted that much of
his writing is a record of his experiences. From 1922 to
1928 he served in Burma in the Indian Imperial Police. For
the next two years he lived in Paris, and then came to
England as a school-teacher. Later he worked in a book-
shop. In 1937 he went to Spain to fight for the Republicans
and was wounded. During World War II he was a member
of the Home Guard and worked for the B.B.C. In 1943 he
joined the staff of Tribune, contributing a regular page of
political and literary commentary, As I Please. He later
became a regular contributor to The Observer, for which
newspaper went as special correspondent to France and
Germany. He was taken seriously ill in the winter of
1948-9 and died in London in January 1950. His first wife
had died in |945. Shortly before his death he married Sonia
Brownell, at that time Assistant Editor of Horizon.
His publications include Down and Out in London and
Paris and Burmese Days (which have both been published
in this series), The Road to Wigan Pier, Homage to Catalonia,
and Inside the Whale. Orwell's name became widely known
with the publication, in 1945, of Animal Farm (Penguin 838),
This satire on Soviet Russia has sold over 1,000,000 copies of
the American and English editions, and has been translated
into 14 foreign languages. His last novel, Nineteen Eighty-
Four, published in 1949, has had a similar success, and the
television adaptation aroused public interest to an extra-
ordinary degfree.
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