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“To survive it is often necessary to fight and to fight you have to dirty yourself.”
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Biography 25 June 1903 Motihari, India – 21 January 1950 London Eric Arthur Blaire British novelist, essayist, and critic. 1936 – he fought in The Spanish Civil War
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Novels Burmese Days- 1934 He related his personal experiences as an officer in the Indian Imperial Police in Burma
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Coming up for air – 1939 The plot is very simple; George Bowling is a fat, forty five year old man who looks around at his life and wonders just how did he get here?
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Animal farm – 1945 It is about a group of animals who rebel against the drunken farmer who owns them, and abuses them. They begin running the farm themselves. Their revolution is corrupted into tyranny which eventually becomes worse than the human farmer's regime.
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Nineteen Eighty- Four – 1949 George Orwell's novel of a totalitarian future society in which a man whose daily work is rewriting history tries to rebel by falling in love.
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Books based on personal experiences Down and out in Paris and London – 1933 It is the white-hot reaction of a sensitive, observant, compassionate young man to poverty, injustice and the callousness of the rich
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Homage to Catalonia – 1938 George Orwell’s personal account of his experiences and observations in the Spanish Civil War.
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