Orwell 1984
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George Orwell. 1984.
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About the author
George Orwell ( June 25, 1903– January 21, 1950) was the pen-name of Eric Arthur Blair,a British author and journalist best known for his allegorical political novels, Animal Farm and Nineteen EightyFour. The latter, which describes a futuristic dystopian society, led to the use of the adjective 'Orwellian' to describe totalitarian mechanisms of thought-control. Eric Blair was born in Bengal, 1903 in the British colony of India, where his father, Richard, worked for the OpiumDepartment of the Civil Service. His mother, Ida, brought him to England at the age of one; he did not see his father again until 1907 when Richard visited England for three months before leaving again until 1912. Eric had an older sister named Marjorie and a younger sister named Avril. At the age of 5, Eric was sent to a small Anglican parish school in Henley, which his sisters had attended before him.He never wrote of his recollections of it, however, he must have impressed the teachers very favorably, for two years later he was recommended to the headmaster of one of the most successful preparatory schools in England at the time: St. Cyprian’s School, in Eastbourne, Sussex. Young Eric attended St. Cyprian’s on a scholarship that allowed his parents to pay only half of the usual fees. Manyyears later, he would recall his time at St. Cyprian’s with biting resentment in the essay “Such, Such Were the Joys,” but he did well enough to earn scholarships to both Wellington and Eton colleges. After a semester a Wellington, Eric moved to Eton, where he was a King’s Scholar from 1917 to 1921. Later in life he wrote that he had been “relatively happy” at Eton, which allowed its studentsconsiderable independence, but also that he ceased doing serious work after arriving there. Reports of his academic performance at Eton vary: some claim he was a poor student, others deny this. It is clear that he was disliked by
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some of his teachers, who resented what they perceived as disrespect for their authority. In any event, during his time at the school Eric made lifetimefriendships with a number of future British intellectuals. Upon completing his studies at Eton, having no prospect of gaining a university scholarship and his family’s means being insufficient to pay for his tuition, Eric joined the Indian Imperial Police in Burma in 1922. He resigned and returned to England in 1928 having grown to hate imperialism (as evidenced by first novel Burmese Days, published in1934, and by such notable essays as ‘A Hanging’, and ‘Shooting an Elephant’). He adopted his pen name in 1933, while writing for the New Adelphi. Perhaps surprisingly for a writer with progressive, socialist views, he chose a pen name that stressed his deep and life-long affection for the English tradition and countryside: George is the patron saint of England, while the River Orwell in Suffolk wasone of his most beloved English sites. Blair lived for several years in poverty, sometimes homeless, sometimes doing itinerant work, as he recalled in the book Down and Out in Paris and London. He eventually found work as a schoolteacher until ill health forced him to give this up to work part-time as an assistant in a secondhand bookshop in Hampstead. A member of the Independent Labour Party,Orwell felt impelled to fight as an infantryman in the anti-Stalinist POUM (Workers’ Party of Marxist Unification) during the Spanish Civil War. In Homage to Catalonia he described his admiration for the apparent absence of a class structure in the revolutionary areas of Spain he visited. He also depicted what he believed was the betrayal of that workers’ revolution in Spain by the Spanish...
1984. George Orwell.
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Contents
George Orwell. 1984.
Purchase the entire Coradella Collegiate Bookshelf on CD at http://collegebookshelf.net
About the author
George Orwell ( June 25, 1903– January 21, 1950) was the pen-name of Eric Arthur Blair,a British author and journalist best known for his allegorical political novels, Animal Farm and Nineteen EightyFour. The latter, which describes a futuristic dystopian society, led to the use of the adjective 'Orwellian' to describe totalitarian mechanisms of thought-control. Eric Blair was born in Bengal, 1903 in the British colony of India, where his father, Richard, worked for the OpiumDepartment of the Civil Service. His mother, Ida, brought him to England at the age of one; he did not see his father again until 1907 when Richard visited England for three months before leaving again until 1912. Eric had an older sister named Marjorie and a younger sister named Avril. At the age of 5, Eric was sent to a small Anglican parish school in Henley, which his sisters had attended before him.He never wrote of his recollections of it, however, he must have impressed the teachers very favorably, for two years later he was recommended to the headmaster of one of the most successful preparatory schools in England at the time: St. Cyprian’s School, in Eastbourne, Sussex. Young Eric attended St. Cyprian’s on a scholarship that allowed his parents to pay only half of the usual fees. Manyyears later, he would recall his time at St. Cyprian’s with biting resentment in the essay “Such, Such Were the Joys,” but he did well enough to earn scholarships to both Wellington and Eton colleges. After a semester a Wellington, Eric moved to Eton, where he was a King’s Scholar from 1917 to 1921. Later in life he wrote that he had been “relatively happy” at Eton, which allowed its studentsconsiderable independence, but also that he ceased doing serious work after arriving there. Reports of his academic performance at Eton vary: some claim he was a poor student, others deny this. It is clear that he was disliked by
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some of his teachers, who resented what they perceived as disrespect for their authority. In any event, during his time at the school Eric made lifetimefriendships with a number of future British intellectuals. Upon completing his studies at Eton, having no prospect of gaining a university scholarship and his family’s means being insufficient to pay for his tuition, Eric joined the Indian Imperial Police in Burma in 1922. He resigned and returned to England in 1928 having grown to hate imperialism (as evidenced by first novel Burmese Days, published in1934, and by such notable essays as ‘A Hanging’, and ‘Shooting an Elephant’). He adopted his pen name in 1933, while writing for the New Adelphi. Perhaps surprisingly for a writer with progressive, socialist views, he chose a pen name that stressed his deep and life-long affection for the English tradition and countryside: George is the patron saint of England, while the River Orwell in Suffolk wasone of his most beloved English sites. Blair lived for several years in poverty, sometimes homeless, sometimes doing itinerant work, as he recalled in the book Down and Out in Paris and London. He eventually found work as a schoolteacher until ill health forced him to give this up to work part-time as an assistant in a secondhand bookshop in Hampstead. A member of the Independent Labour Party,Orwell felt impelled to fight as an infantryman in the anti-Stalinist POUM (Workers’ Party of Marxist Unification) during the Spanish Civil War. In Homage to Catalonia he described his admiration for the apparent absence of a class structure in the revolutionary areas of Spain he visited. He also depicted what he believed was the betrayal of that workers’ revolution in Spain by the Spanish...
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