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Segui per ricevere aggiornamenti sulle nuove uscite, offerte speciali comprese le offerte promozionali e consigli migliorati. George Orwell is one of England's most famous writers and social commentators. Among his works are the classic political satire Animal Farm and the dystopian nightmare vision Nineteen Eighty-Four. Orwell was also a prolific essayist, and it is for these works that he was perhaps best known during his lifetime.

His writing is at once insightful, poignant and entertaining, and continues to be read widely all over the world.

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The family moved to England in and in Orwell entered Eton, where he contributed regularly to the various college magazines. From to he served with the Indian Imperial Police in Burma, an experience that inspired his first novel, Burmese Days Several years of poverty followed. He lived in Paris for two years before returning to England, where he worked successively as a private tutor, schoolteacher and bookshop assistant, and contributed reviews and articles to a number of periodicals.

Down and Out in Paris and London was published in In he was commissioned by Victor Gollancz to visit areas of mass unemployment in Lancashire and Yorkshire, and The Road to Wigan Pier is a powerful description of the poverty he saw there. At the end of Orwell went to Spain to fight for the Republicans and was wounded. Homage to Catalonia is his account of the civil war.

He was admitted to a sanatorium in and from then on was never fully fit. He spent six months in Morocco and there wrote Coming Up for Air. As literary editor of the Tribune he contributed a regular page of political and literary commentary, and he also wrote for the Observer and later for the Manchester Evening News. His unique political allegory, Animal Farm was published in , and it was this novel, together with Nineteen Eighty-Four , which brought him world-wide fame.