George Orwell's Life
George Orwell was born in 1903 in India, his real name is Eric Arthur Blair. He was educated in England, after he finished school, he joined the Indian Imperial Police in Burma. He later resigned and became a writer in 1927, and moved toParis in 1928, but he was lack of success and was forced to do some "lower class" jobs. He lived in Paris for 2 years, then returned to England. He wrote the novel Burmese Days in 1934 about the experiences he had when serving the police. In late 1936, Orwell travelled to Spain to fight the Franco's Nationalists for the Republicans, he eventually fled due to the suppression from the communists who were backed up by the Soviets, this made him hate the USSR and became a counter-Stalinist. From 1941 to 1943, Orwell worked on propaganda for the BBC, he became literary editor of the Tribune, a weekly left-wing magazine in 1943. Orwell's Animal Farm was published 1945, a book in a way of fable. The book is based on Stalin's behavior before and after the Russian Revolution, Orwell became more famous after this book was published. 'Nineteen Eighty-Four' was published four years later, it is about what the world would be like in 1984, it is actually an imaginary prediction book about the future. Orwell's health was declining and he died of tuberculosis on 21 January 1950. |  |
