George Orwell

Eric Blair, known as George Orwell, was born in 1903 in colonial India, won a scholarship to Eton, then served five years in the Imperial Police in Burma, from which he resigned in 1927, during a leave in England. He then lived voluntarily in poverty in Paris and London, and investigated the miners of the north of England. Enlisted in Spain in a militia of the Workers' Party of Marxist Unification, which was anti-Stalinist, he was shot through the throat, then had to flee Barcelona in 1937, when the communists suppressed the party. He died of tuberculosis on 21 January 1950, aged forty-six.

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• NovelAnimal FarmGeorge Orwell · 1945Literature
• NovelNineteen Eighty-FourGeorge Orwell · 1949LiteraturePublic domain