George Orwell was the pseudonym adopted by Eric Arthur Blair, a boy who was born in India in 1903, where his father was a British colonial official. Back to England he studied at Eaton ...
Becoming George Orwell is a pathbreaking tour de force that charts the astonishing passage of a litterateur into a legend.Rodden presents the author of Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four in a new ...
(THE CONVERSATION) Shortly after Donald Trump was inaugurated as president of the United States in January 2017, George Orwell’s 1949 novel “Nineteen Eighty-Four” shot to the top of Amazon ...
Born Eric Blair, he attended Eton and served ... social critique that marked his shift to writing under the pen name George Orwell. By the time he left for Spain in 1936, Orwell had already ...