1984
• The author :
Eric Arthur Blair alias George Orwell was born in 1903 in Mothari, Bengal, India.
His father was a civil servant for the British government.
In 1904 Orwell moved together with his mother and sister to England where he grew up.
Although he did not like school he began to enjoy writing at an early age.
From 1922 to 1927 he worked as a policeman in Burma and served in the administration of the Indian Imperial Police, where his dislike of the British imperialism grew.
When Orwell returned to Europe he had to take not well paid jobs in France and in England until he decided to become a professional writer, this was in 1928. In 1933 he changed his name in “George Orwell” . In his first novel “Down and Out in Paris and London” he wrote about his own life and experience with poverty.
While teaching in a private school he wrote his second book, “Burmese Days”.
Two years later he married Eileen 0´Shaugnessy.
In the 1930s he was sent to Spain as a soldier to report on their civil war.
He wrote a book on Spain, “Homage to Catalonia”.
During the Second World War he served as a sergeant in the Home Guard and also worked as a journalist for BBC. At the end of the war he wrote
“Animal Farm”, which was a world wide success. His last book was “1984”.
Orwell´s wife died in 1945 and in 1949 he remarried Sonia Browell They had a short time together only because on January the 21st, 1950 he died of tuberculosis in London.
Books:
• 1933 Down and Out in Paris and London
• 1934 Burmese Days
• 1935 A Clergyman's Daughter
• 1936 Keep the Aspidistra Flying
• 1937 The Road to Wigan Pier
• 1938 Homage to Catalonia
• 1939 Coming Up for Air
• 1945 Animal Farm
• 1948 Nineteen Eighty-Four
• The Newspeak Vocabulary:
1. telescreen – like a television and a camera where words appear
and people are observed
2. thoughtcrime – if so. only think of a crime he will be punished...
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