George Orwell (Eric Arthur Blair) was born in Bengal in 1903 as his father was an official in the Indian Customs and Excise. He was educated in a south coast preparatory school and then at Eton. From 1922 to 1927 he served in the Indian Imperial Police but he soon became dissatisfied as this role offended his conscience and he left Burma to go to Paris.

From 1929 he took a series of poorly paid jobs. About this time he became a professed socialist, and the rest of his life was largely spent in defending and propagating what he considered to be true democratic socialism against its perversions.

Like many progressives of the time Orwell took part in the Spanish Civil War, first as a journalist and then on the the republican side as a soldier, joining the left-wing P.O.U.N.

In 1943 Orwell joined the staff of Tribune, contributing a regular page of political and literary comment, As I Please. In 1945, Animal Farm, the satire on Stalinist Russia and all other totalitarian regimes, was published.

Orwell wrote his last book, Nineteen Eighty-Four, on a lonely Hebridean Island. It was published in 1949. Orwell died in January 1950.

'Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper.~ George Orwell

1984.

Big Brother, Thought Police, Newspeak, the Ministry of Love ...
in George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, the party control every
aspect of life. But Winston still remembers a time before the
revolution - a time when men and women lived by instincts and
loved with passion. He thinks he is alone in his thought-crimes,
but then he meets Julia ...

W A R  I S  P E A C E

F R E E D O M  I S  S L A V E R Y

I G N O R A N C E  I S  S T R E N G T H

George Orwell ~ 1984.

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