George Orwell, born 25 June 25 1903, in Motihari,
Bengal, India, was an English novelist, essayist, and critic famous for his
novels Animal Farm (1945) and Nineteen Eighty-four (1949). The latter of these
is a profound anti-utopian novel that examines the dangers of totalitarian
rule.
Born Eric Arthur Blair, Orwell never
entirely abandoned his original name, but his first book, Down and Out in Paris and
London, appeared in 1933 as the work of George Orwell (the surname he derived
from the beautiful River Orwell in East Anglia). In time his nom de plume
became so closely attached to him that few people but relatives knew his real
name was Blair. The change in name corresponded to a profound shift in Orwell’s
lifestyle, in which he changed from a pillar of the British imperial establishment
into a literary and political rebel.
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