Eric Arthur Blair (George Orwell) was born in India in 1903. He was educated at Eton, served with the Indian Imperial Police in Burma, and worked in Britain as a private tutor, schoolteacher, bookshop assistant and journalist. In 1936, Orwell went to fight for the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War and was wounded. In 1938 he was admitted into a sanatorium and from then on was never fully fit. George Orwell died in London in 1950.
Über den Autor George Orwell
George Orwell (1903-1950) war ein britischer Schriftsteller und Journalist. Im Reclam Verlag sind seine beiden großen Romane »Farm der Tiere« und »1984« auf Deutsch und Englisch erhältlich, darüber hinaus die Essaysammlung »Shooting an Elephant«.