George Orwell Timeline
George Orwell lived between 1903 – 1950. He died at the early age of 47 years due to neglected lung ailment. George Orwell is the pen name of Eric Arthur Blair a noted English writer and journalist well known as a novelist, critic, and commentator on politics and culture. |
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Orwell was a son of a British colonial civil servant in eastern India. He was educated in England and, after he left Eton, joined the Indian Imperial Police in Burma, then a British colony. He resigned in 1927 and decided to move to Europe to become a writer. He described his experiences in his first book, ‘Down and Out in Paris and London’, shared in 1933 - he took the name George Orwell, shortly before its publication. This was followed by his first novel ‘Burmese Days’ in 1934.
An anarchist in the late 1920s, in the 1930s he looked himself as a socialist. In 1936 he was commissioned to write an account of poverty among unemployed miners in northern England, which resulted in ‘The Road to Wigan Pier’ (1937). Late in 1936, Orwell traveled to Spain to fight for the Republicans against Franco's Nationalists. Between 1941 and 1943, Orwell worked on propaganda for the BBC. In 1943, he became literary editor of the Tribune, a weekly left-wing magazine. By now he was a prolific journalist, writing articles, reviews and books.
In 1945, Orwell's 'Animal Farm' was published. A political fable set in a farmyard but based on Stalin's betrayal of the Russian Revolution, it made Orwell's name and ensured he was financially comfortable for the first time in his life. George Orwell is one of the most admired English-language essayists of the twentieth century, and most famous for two novels critical of totalitarianism in general (Nineteen Eighty-Four), and Stalinism in particular (Animal Farm), which he wrote and published towards the end of his life.
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