The Orwell Diaries
Author(s): George Orwell
George Orwell was an inveterate keeper of diaries. This title presents eleven of them, covering the period 1931-1949, and follows Orwell from his early years as a writer to his last literary notebook.
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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.
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- : Penguin Books Ltd
- : Penguin Classics
- : 0.373
- : 03 June 2010
- : 198mm X 129mm X 23mm
- : United Kingdom
- : books
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- : George Orwell
- : Paperback
- : 1
- : 823.912
- : 544
- : Illustrations