{"title":"GEORGE ORWELL COLLECTION","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGeorge Orwell is still one of the best selling authors here at Chapters Bookstore\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e, orig. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eEric Arthur Blair\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e, (born 1903 , Motihari, Bengal, India —died Jan. 21, 1950 , London, Eng.), British novelist, essayist, and critic. Instead of accepting a scholarship to a university, Orwell went to Burma to serve in the Indian Imperial Police (1922–27), an experience that changed him into a literary and political rebel. On returning to Europe, he lived in self-imposed poverty, gaining material for \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDown and Out in Paris and London\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e (1933), and became a socialist. He went to Spain to report on the Civil war \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eand stayed to join the Republican militia. His war experiences, which gave him a lifelong dread of communism (he would later provide British intelligence services with lists of his fellow British communists), are recounted in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHomage to Catalonia\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e (1938). His novels typically portray a sensitive, conscientious, emotionally isolated individual at odds with an oppressive or dishonest social environment. His most famous works are the anti-Soviet satirical fable \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAnimal Farm\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e (1945) and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNineteen Eighty-four\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e (1949), a dystopic vision of totalitarianism whose influence was widely felt in the postwar decades. His literary essays are also admired.\u003c\/span\u003e","products":[],"url":"https:\/\/keatsandchapman.info\/collections\/george-orwell-collection.oembed","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}