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George Orwell
George Orwell was born in India in 1903 and died in 1950. He lived in India until his first birthday, when his mother brought him and his sister back to England. Young Orwell had a way with words from the start. It’s been said that his first word was ‘beastly’ and that he wrote his first poem at age 4. He was educated at Eton College. After completing his education, he travelled back to India to live with his dad. However, he regretted this decision after he realised that he didn’t actually like his dad, he found him rather dull. Nevertheless, he remained in India and joined the Imperial Police in British occupied India to earn a living before he was able to become a journalist.
Many writers like to have a fictitious name, a pseudonym, and Orwell was no exception. His name was actually George Orwell at all, it was Eric Blair. Blair was a very talented man, and had natural way with words, but he was also a very sick man. First of all, he was infertile, and not only that he was also suffering from tuberculosis, the fatal disease which would eventually kill him in 1950, just after the completion of his second highly acclaimed book, 1984.
His first book, Animal Farm, was published on August 17, 1945. It was a story about farm animals chasing their farmer away and the struggles they faced to do with power and equality. It was a small book, with pictures of animals on the front, and was therefore often placed in the kid section. But, Orwell was outraged, it wasn’t a children’s book at all, it was an allegorical tale meant for adults who would read it on a deeper level. Underneath the disguises of farm animals, Orwell tells us about the Russian Revolution, with particular focus on Napoleon, the pig, who represents Stalin. If we remove the disguises, the story is about Joseph Stalin rising to power during the revolution, dumbing down or eliminating his rivals. But on an even deeper level, it tells us about any tyrannical leader and their mad rush for power, not just in

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