Facts about George Orwell

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   Burmese Days, George Orwell's debut novel, drew on his years serving as an imperial police officer in Burma during the 1920s.

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   The Spanish Civil War profoundly shaped George Orwell's politics; his firsthand experiences fighting in Catalonia are documented in Homage to Catalonia.

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   Animal Farm, George Orwell's allegorical novella satirizing Stalinist Russia, was rejected by several publishers before finally appearing in 1945.

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   Dystopian masterpiece Nineteen Eighty-Four, written by George Orwell, was published in 1949, the year before his death from tuberculosis.

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   Born Eric Arthur Blair, George Orwell adopted his pen name before publishing his first book, Down and Out in Paris and London, in 1933.

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