George orwell

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George Orwell
* June 25, 1903 Motihari - India
+ January 21, 1950 London - GB
The British author George Orwell, pen name for Eric Blair , achieved prominence in the late 1940's as the author of two brilliant satires. He wrote documentaries , essays, and criticism during the 1930's and later established him as one of the most important and influential voices of the century.
"On each landing, opposite the lift shaft, the poster with the enormous face gazed down from the wall. It was one of these pictures which are so contrived that the eyes follow you about when you move BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU, the caption beneath ran." - from Nineteen Eighty-Four

Eric Arthur Blair (later George Orwell) was born in 1903 in the Indian Village Motihari, which lies near to the border of Nepal. At that time India was a part of the British Empire, and Blair's father Richard ,held a post as agent in the Opium Department of the Indian Civil Service. Blair's paternal grandfather

too had been part of the British Raj ,and had served in the Indian Army. Eric's mother ,Ida Mabel Blair ,the daughter of a French tradesman, was about eighteen years younger than her husband Richard Blair . Eric had a elder sister called Marjorie. The Blairs led a relatively privileged and fairly pleasant existence, in helping to administer the Empire. Although the Blair family was not very wealthy - Orwell later described them ironically as "lower-upper-middle class" . They owned no property, had no extensive investments; they were like many middle-class English families of the time, totally dependent on the British Empire for their livelihood and prospects. In 1907 when Eric had about eight years ,the family returned to England and lived at Henley, though the father continued to work in India until he retired in 1912. With some difficulty ,Blair's parents sent their son to a private preparatory school in Sussex at the age of eight. At the age of thirteen he won a scholarship to Wellington, and soon after another to Eaton ,the famous public school.
His parents had forced him to work hat at a deary preparatory school, and now after winning the scholarship, he was not any more interested in further mental exertion unrelated to his private ambition. At the beginning of Why I Write, he explains that from the age of five or six he knew he would be- must be-a writer. But to become a writer one had to read literature. But English literature was not a major subject at Eaton, where most boys came from backgrounds either irremediably unliterary or so literary that to teach them 'English Literature' would be absurd. One of Eric's tutors later declared that his famous pupil had not done absolutely no work for five years. This was of course untrue: Eric has apprenticed himself to the masters of