George Orwell Biography: Policeman, Second Lieutenant, The Freedom Fighter in Literature
By Chris Dicker
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George Orwell, also known as Eric Arthur Blair, is recognized as one of the most influential writers at the beginning of the 20th century. If you want to learn more about George Orwell's life, legacy and work, you've come to the right place.
George Orwell is known as an established writer, author, novelist and journalist. He does not write fiction stories. He’s one of those writers who travel to Burma, France, Spain, Morocco, New Zealand, Scotland and different cities in England to gather experiences in order to enrich his writing materials, making more exclusive experience for readers worldwide. Oftentimes, Orwell risks his life to get to know the life of the poor, even if he does not have to be or live there. He even went to prison to see what’s like to include that in his writings. He went to live with coal miners, risking his life for the sake of accuracy in his stories and providing good writing materials. Orwell often finds himself on the road to different countries, changing jobs to support himself and writing many novels and essays based on the places he visits.
George Orwell’s life was quite diverse. He was serving the police force in Burma for quite some time. He served in the army as well. Most of all, he loved writing, but in order to do so, he had go out and gather the experience he needed to provide good writing material to present later to publishers in the hope to become an established writer. Success did not come by accident. Wherever he went, Orwell focused on day-to-day life, housing, hygienic, financial, social and political aspects of events.
During his lifetime, his intense journalistic activity exceeded by far his fame as novelist. He wrote essays, reviewed books, movies and theatre plays and was deeply involved in the political and social movements of his time.
In this biography, we'll explore the life of George Orwell not many people know about. His struggles and success along with the strength and determination to fight for freedom. This is a quality not many people possess.
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Chris Dicker
I love writing biographies about celebrities (dead or alive), because there's so much to learn from those people. Success leaves clues, so I study and write about successful people.
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George Orwell Biography - Chris Dicker
George Orwell Biography: Policeman, Second Lieutenant, The Freedom Fighter in Literature - Why Orwell Matters
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Table of Contents
Early Life and Childhood
Eton, King’s Scholar Collage
Imperial Police Burma (1922-1927)
First Contact with the World of the Poor in London
Paris – First Attempts of Journalism
Return to Southwold
Teaching Career in London (1932-1933)
Hampstead – Assistant in a Second Hand Bookshop
Marriage to Eileen O’Shaughnessy – 1936
Spain – Participation of the Spanish Civil War – 1937
Work at BBC Eastern Services (1941-1943)
Literary Editor at Tribune - 1943
Eileen O’Shaughnessy Death
Moving to Jura and Nineteen Eighty-Four
Final Thoughts
Early Life and Childhood
Famous mostly for his books Animal’s Farm
and Nineteen Eighty-Four
, Eric Arthur Blair, alias George Orwell, was not only an accomplished writer and acclaimed publicist but also a visionary, whose political insights where to be validated by the European political systems a few decades after his death.
Orwell impresses us less with his writing style and more with the sheer passion of his writing and the actuality of the social and political themes will find again and gain resonance in readers’ hearts.
Orwell gave to posterity not only his books, but he left a distinctive mark on the English language as well. Terms like cold war,
big brother,
newspeak
and memory hole,
were coined by him and afterwards widely used in the