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George Orwell: The Complete Novels
Eric Arthur Blair (George Orwell) was born in 1903 in India, where
his father worked for the Civil Service. The family moved to England
in 1907 and in 1917 Orwell entered Eton, where he contributed
regularly to the various college magazines. From 1922 to 1927 he
served with the Indian Imperial Police in Burma, an experience that
inspired his first novel, Burmese Days (1934). Several years of poverty
followed. He lived in Paris for two years before returning to England,
where he worked successively as a private tutor, schoolteacher and
bookshop assistant, and contributed reviews and articles to a number
of periodicals. Down and Out in Paris and London was published in
1933. In 1936 he was commissioned by Victor Gollancz to visit areas
of mass unemployment in Lancashire and Yorkshire, and The Road to
Wigan Pier (1937) is a powerful description of the poverty he saw
there. At the end of 1936 Orwell went to Spain to fight for the
Republicans and was wounded. Homage to Catalonia is his account of
the civil war. He was admitted to a sanatorium in 1938 and from then
on was never fully fit. He spent ......
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