George Orwell (HM6)

George Orwell (* June 25th, 1903 in Motihari, Bihar, as Eric Arthur Blair) is an English author, Essayist, and Journalist.
In 1916 he went to the public school of , where Aldous Huxley was one of his teachers. During 1921 through 1927, he was working for the British colonial police in . That's why he speaks Hindustani and Burmese. In this time, he developed a Hate against colonial rule.
Because of his leftist convictions, he was surveilled by a Special unit of Scotland Yard since 1929. In 1936, he joined the republican Side in the Spanish Civil War. There, he became a comrade of the half-anarchist Militia of the P.O.U.M. - originally he had wanted to join the CNT. In this time, he shared a correspondent's office with Ernest Hemingway and André Malraux. The P.O.U.M. was very much hated by the Stalinists, even insulted as "Fascists". Finally, they started „purges“, Soviet Style. Orwell's life was in danger, and he had to go into hiding several times. Together with his wife Eileen, he managed to flee to France.
Mid-July 1937, Orwell returned to England and wrote his book Homage to Catalonia during the second half of 1937. Before that, he already had written novels like Keep the Aspidistra Flying (1936), Social reports like The Road to Wigan Pier (1937), and Essays.
Orwell became a Patriot when the --Pact was signed. When and declared war on September 3rd, 1939 to , which had invaded , he volunteered for the army, but was rejected in June because of his bad health (in , he had received a severe neck wound). Instead, he joined the Home Guard.
On 21 March 1940 he wrote a review of 's Mein Kampf for The New English Weekly, in which he analysed the dictator's psychology. In , his books are unsurprisingly forbidden.
He owns - besides other pets - a poodle named Marx.
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