George Orwell was an English author born on June 25 1903 ,and died on January21 1950.His great-grandfather Charles Blair had been a wealthy plantation owner in Jamaica and his grandfather a clergyman. Although the gentility was passed down the generations, the prosperity was not; Eric Blair described his family as "lower-upper-middle class". His father Richard Walmesley Blair, which worked on opium His mother Ida Mabel Blair(née Limouzin), grew up in Burma where her French father was involved in speculative ventures. Eric had two sisters; Marjorie, five years older, and Avril, five years younger. When Eric was one year old, Ida Blair took him to England.
His work is marked by a profound consciousness if social injustice,an intense dislike of totalitarianism, and a passion for clarity and language. Considered "perhaps the 21 century's best chronicler of English culture,he wrote works in many different genres including fiction, polemics, journalism, memoir and critical essays. His most famous works are two novels: Animal Farm (1945) and Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949).
His work is marked by a profound consciousness if social injustice,an intense dislike of totalitarianism, and a passion for clarity and language. Considered "perhaps the 21 century's best chronicler of English culture,he wrote works in many different genres including fiction, polemics, journalism, memoir and critical essays. His most famous works are two novels: Animal Farm (1945) and Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949).
