![]() When Down and Out in Paris and London was published Eric Blair adopted a pseudonym to spare his family embarrassment and George Orwell was born. ![]() He lived with the poor of Paris and London and wrote about his life there. Instead of going up to University Orwell took a post with the Burma police, but after a few years Orwell broke from that path and returned to the UK. He attended Eton school, and was taught French by Aldous Huxley who would later write Brave New World. ![]() George OrwellĪ child of the Empire Eric Arthur Blair was born in India in 1903. Orwell probably is responsible for the the term Cold War so he is a keen observer of post war politics and in many ways predicted the shape of the second half of the 20th century he is an important figure and the book 1984 is a key reason for this. It’s immense influence is easy to show by reference to the number of terms it coins which have come into common use in the English language The book went on the become a kind of touchstone with which to criticise totalitarian ideas on both right and left. Introductionġ984 was written mostly during 1948 by George Orwell set in a future in which a totalitarian state completely controls the lives of its subjects. A warning to the human race in which a society founded on hatred is created. ![]() ![]() 1984 by George Orwell Review and Book Notesġ984 is one of the most Influential Books of the 20th Century. ![]()
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