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A summary and analysis of the book 1984 by George Orwell
Is the Future 1984"
George Orwell was born Eric Arthur Blair in colonial India in 1903. He attended boarding school in England where he discovered an "early sensitivity to the uses and abuses of power." After graduation he joined the Burmese Indian Imperial Police with the mindset that he had to be a part of imperialism in order to say he hated it. Five years later he quit to become a writer. He published his first book, Down and Out in Paris and London in 1933 while working as a dishwasher. He married twice and joined an antifascist militia with his second wife. His career continued with books such as: The Road to Wigan Pier, which allowed him to show his "new political consciousness" and Animal Farm, possibly his best-known novel. In 1949 he published 1984, "classic.....
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