George Orwell: His other works.
George Orwell was born Eric Arthur Blair in the British colony Moithari, Bengal in 1903 to a British minor official father and French mother. At a young age, his mother returned to England with him and his sisters and he began attending school in Henley. Blair was able to go to a number of prestigious schools on scholarship including Eton as King's Scholar. After finishing school at Eton, he went to Burma joining the Indian Imperial Police (Britannica, 2013). He wrote his first novel Burmese Days in 1934, based on his stay there. He began writing under the pseudonym George Orwell in 1933, and wrote an extensive range of essays, non-fiction, and fiction books. He commented on many aspects of contemporary Englis culture, most notably through his articles as a columnist for the Tribune titled As I Please (Georgeorwell.org, 2003).
Orwell began and is most well known as a journalist, from his work as a columnist and editor to his travelogues and memoirs Down and Out in Paris and London and Homage to Catalonia. However, when we think of Orwell, we think of Animal Farm and 1984. 1984 expressed further Orwell's warning against totalitarianism after the disasters caused by Stalin and the Nazis. Although Animal Farm was a great success, it is often overshadowed by 1984. Perhaps it is because 1984 was his last novel, or perhaps it was how easily it could become a reality. At the time, after the incredible but bloody revolutions caused by Nazism and Stalinism, the totalitarian dystopian in 1984 did not seem impossible or that far away at all, and perhaps because of its strong possibility that 1984 gets greater recognition.
Orwell began and is most well known as a journalist, from his work as a columnist and editor to his travelogues and memoirs Down and Out in Paris and London and Homage to Catalonia. However, when we think of Orwell, we think of Animal Farm and 1984. 1984 expressed further Orwell's warning against totalitarianism after the disasters caused by Stalin and the Nazis. Although Animal Farm was a great success, it is often overshadowed by 1984. Perhaps it is because 1984 was his last novel, or perhaps it was how easily it could become a reality. At the time, after the incredible but bloody revolutions caused by Nazism and Stalinism, the totalitarian dystopian in 1984 did not seem impossible or that far away at all, and perhaps because of its strong possibility that 1984 gets greater recognition.
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Orwell, George. (2013). In Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved from http://school.ebonline.com/eb/article-905750
Orwell, George. (2013). In Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved from http://school.ebonline.com/eb/article-905750