"Born in India in 1903, his real name was Eric Blair. Educated in England, he won a scholarship to Eton. He was already developing a distaste for the English class system."
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"Once he had completed school, Orwell returned to the east where he served for five years as a policeman in Burma Then under British rule)."
"Returning to England, he devoted himself to writing. To better express the case of the poor, for whom he felt so much sympathy, he lived among them in Paris and London doing menial and ill-paying jobs."
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"A shop-assistant, a tutor, a tramp, a schoolmaster, Orwell worked all of his many occupations into the books he was now writing."
"He was beginning to achieve some success, as several of his books were published in the early 1930's."
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"In 1936 he married and took over a small business (a store)."
"Shortly after this, Civil War broke out in Spain, and Orwell felt compelled to go to Spain to fight for the rebel cause."
"His experience in Spain gave him many of the ideas he later incorporated into 'Animal Farm'."
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"He became committed to the ideals of socialism, but also observed firsthand the greed and hunger for power that could destroy such ideals."
"After the war in Spain, Orwell's writing became even more politically motivated."
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"In 1938 Orwell contracted tuberculosis, the disease which would later kill him."
"Declared physically unfit to fight in World War II, he did what he could for the war effort at home."
"However, he continued his writing, and in 1943-44 completed 'Animal Farm'."
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"The novel took some time to find a publisher, as few were brave enough to produce a book so sharply critical of Russia, now an ally of Britain."
"It was finally published in 1945, and was an immediate success with the public."
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"Ill again with tuberculosis, Orwell settled on the remote island of Jura. Here he wrote what is perhaps his most famous book, '1984'."
"This novel also, reveals the horrors of a state controlled by all powerful leaders."
