His experiences ranged from Eton to service in the colonial police and from short periods as tramp, dishwasher, hop-picker, tutor and teacher to book reviewer and pseudo-Georgian poet. Thesis: George Orwell is known as the greatest political writer of the twentieth century.īefore Orwell turned writer at the age of thirty he opened himself to a wide range of life experiences by opting for various jobs in various places. Orwell died of tuberculosis on 21 January 1950. His volumes of essays include Dickens, Dali and Others (1946), Shooting an Elephant (1950), and the Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell (4 vol., 1968). He also wrote many literary essays of critical acclaim. Orwell’s other novels include A Clergyman’s Daughter (1935), Keep the Aspidistra Flying (1936), and Coming Up for Air (1940). ‘Nineteen Eighty-Four’ was set in an imaginary totalitarian future and the book made a huge impact on its readers with its title and many phrases such as ‘Big Brother is watching you’, ‘newspeak’ and ‘doublethink’ – becoming very popular and widely used. This novel brought Orwell the first taste of financial success. Orwell’s ‘Animal Farm’ was a political fable set in a farmyard but based on Stalin’s betrayal of the Russian Revolution. George Orwell was basically a socialist and he had strong views against imperialism, fascism, Stalinism, and capitalism and his works were based on them.

His early works were most autobiographical – Down and Out in Paris and London (1933), Burmese Days (1934), The Road to Wigan Pier (1937) and Homage to Catalonia (1938). He also fought in the Spanish Civil War on the side of the Republicans in 1936 and was seriously wounded. He spent his life at various places – Eton, India, Burma and Europe. He is remembered to date for his highly satirical novels that reflected his controversial sociopolitical views- Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four. George Orwell (1903-1950), British novelist and essayist was born Eric Arthur Blair in the state of Bengal in India.

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