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George Orwell 1903-1950

George Orwell 1903-1950. "If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face--for ever." --from Nineteen Eighty-Four.

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George Orwell 1903-1950

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  1. George Orwell1903-1950

  2. "If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face--for ever."--from Nineteen Eighty-Four

  3. George Orwell was born Eric Arthur Blair on June 25, 1903, in Motihari, India. The Blairs were working in India on behalf of the British Empire. Blair would later describe his family’s socioeconomic status as "lower-upper middle class.”

  4. Orwell was educated inEngland at Eton College. He was a policeman in Burma from 1922 to 1927. Then, he returned to Europe to become a writer. He was poor for several years, which resulted in the book, Down and Out.In 1936, Orwell joined the Republican forces in the Spanish Civil War. He was wounded in the fighting. Late in the war, Orwell had to flee Spain for his life.

  5. "Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against ***************. . . Animal Farm was the first book in which I tried, with full consciousness of what I was doing, to fuse political purpose and artistic purpose into one whole."

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