The Complete Novels of George Orwell - Animal Farm, Burmese Days, A
Clergyman's Daughter, Coming Up for Air, Keep the Aspidistra Flying,
Nineteen Eighty-Four
Book description
Contains the complete novels of George Orwell: Animal Farm,
Burmese Days, A Clergyman's Daughter, Coming up for
Air, Keep the Aspidistra Flying and Nineteen Eighty-Four.
Includes explanatory notes on the etymology of the language 'Newspeak'.
Eric Arthur Blair (George Orwell) was born in India in 1903. He was
educated at Eton, served with the Indian Imperial Police in Burma, and
worked in Britain as a private tutor, schoolteacher, bookshop assistant
and journalist. In 1936, Orwell went to fight for the Republicans in the
Spanish Civil War and was wounded. In 1938 he was admitted into a
sanatorium and from then on was never fully fit. George Orwell died in
London in 1950.
