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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ISBN | 9780141185293 |
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Sprache | eng |
Cover | BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Poverty & Homelessness, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Classes & Economic Disparity, Autobiography: literary, Poverty & unemployment, Social classes, North West England, North & North East England, c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), Autobiography: writers, Poverty and precarity, North and North East England, c 1919 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), Kartonierter Einband (Kt) |
Verlag | Penguin Books |
Jahr | 20010426 |
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