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About the Author
George Orwell
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George Orwell is the pen name of Erick Blair who George Orwell of his experience of the ‘under-
was a biographer, journalist, satirist and a writer. world’ and many more. His most popular book,
He was born in Bengal 25 June 1903, India and ‘Animal Farm’ was published on the seventeenth
was educated in Elton. His pen-name is derived of August, 1945 and was published in the United
from the river Orwell in East Anglia. Orwell States 1 year later. An artery in Orwell’s lungs
worked to produce literary criticism and had burst which killed him at the age of 46 on the
criticized official communost policies in ‘Hom- 21st of January. George Orwell wrote two popu-
age to Catalonia’ after serving for five years in lar and influential novels. ‘Animal farm’, which
the Indian Imperial police in Burma. His books was a satire that depicted Joseph Stalin’s betrayal
include ‘Animal farm’ which according to him is during the Russian Revolution and ‘Nineteen
a “satire on the Russian Revolution”, ‘Down and Eighty-four’, which was a sardonic, satiric warn-
out in Paris and London’ which is a narration by ing against totalitarianism.
Covid-19
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