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George Orwell, pseudonym of Eric Arthur Blair, (born June 25, 1903, Motihari, Bengal, India—died January 21, 1950, London, England), English novelist, essayist, and critic famous for his novels Animal Farm (1945) and Nineteen Eighty-four (1949), the latter a profound anti-utopian novel that examines the dangers of totalitarian rule.
Born Eric Arthur Blair, Orwell never entirely abandoned his original name, but his first book, Down and Out in Paris and London, appeared in 1933 as the work of George Orwell (the surname he derived from the beautiful River Orwell in East Anglia). In time his nom de plume became so closely attached to him that few people but relatives knew his real name was Blair. The change in name corresponded to a profound shift in Orwell’s lifestyle, in which he changed from a pillar of the British imperial establishment into a literary and political rebel.
He was born in Bengal, into the class of sahibs. His father was a minor British official in the Indian civil service; his mother, of French extraction, was the daughter of an unsuccessful teak merchant in Burma (Myanmar). Their attitudes were those of the “landless gentry,” as Orwell later called lower-middle-class people whose pretensions to social status had little relation to their income. Orwell was thus brought up in an atmosphere of impoverished snobbery. After returning with his parents to England, he was sent in 1911 to a preparatory boarding school on the Sussex coast, where he was distinguished among the other boys by his poverty and his intellectual brilliance. He grew up a morose, withdrawn, eccentric boy, and he was later to tell of the miseries of those years in his posthumously published autobiographical essay, Such, Such Were the Joys (1953).
Orwell won scholarships to two of England’s leading schools, Wellington and Eton, and briefly attended the former before continuing his studies at the latter, where he stayed from 1917 to 1921. Aldous Huxley was one of his masters, and it was at Eton that he published his first writing in college periodicals. Instead of matriculating at a university, Orwell decided to follow family tradition and, in 1922, went to Burma as assistant district superintendent in the Indian Imperial Police. He served in a number of country stations and at first appeared to be a model imperial servant. Yet from boyhood he had wanted to become a writer, and when he realized how much against their will the Burmese were ruled by the British, he felt increasingly ashamed of his role as a colonial police officer. Later he was to recount his experiences and his reactions to imperial rule in his novel Burmese Days and in two brilliant autobiographical sketches, “Shooting an Elephant” and “A Hanging,” classics of expository prose.
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George Orwell - 1984 (read by Simon Prebble)
George Orwell - Animal Farm (read by Simon Callow)
George Orwell - A Clergyman's Daughter (read by Catherine Bailey)
George Orwell - Down And Out In Paris And London (read by Jeremy Northam)
George Orwell - Homage To Catalonia (read by Jeremy Northam)
George Orwell - Burmese Days (read by Allan Corduner)
George Orwell - Keep The Aspidistra Flying (read by Richard E. Grant)
George Orwell - The Road To Wigan Pier (read by Jeremy Northam)
George Orwell - Coming Up For Air (read by Richard Brown)
George Orwell - Such, Such Were The Joys And Other Essays (read by Frederick Davidson)
George Orwell - The George Orwell Non-Fiction Collection (read by Jonathan Keeble, Peter Noble, Malk Williams)
George Orwell - Orwell Collection: Animal Farm And 1984 (read by Stephen Fry)
George Orwell - Orwell: The Essays (read by Peter Noble)
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https://rapidgator.net/file/37d44e93408b92b85d2afde40612d9dd/Coming_Up_For_Air.rar.html
https://rapidgator.net/file/232cab172eb24611aa3c55a1c004cd15/Such_Such_Were_The_Joys_And_Other_Essays.rar.html
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https://rapidgator.net/file/c2af8051879c5169d5290cb4cbc9df50/Orwell_Collection_Animal_Farm_And_1984.part2.rar.html
https://rapidgator.net/file/b740bbdce5eff5bd3c3549bdc585053b/The_George_Orwell_NonFiction_Collection.rar.html
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