He lived virtually as a tramp in London and Paris in the late 1920s, finally settling in 1929 in his parents' home in Suffolk.

The Long Struggle to Make Writing a Career Orwell attempted to establish himself as a writer-with very little success at first. His experiences there had given him a distaste for imperialism, and his feeling about his experiences can be seen in Burmese Days (1934). While home on leave in England, he made the important decision not to return to Burma. Orwell then joined the Indian Imperial Police, receiving his training in Burma (modern Myanmar, which was also at the time under British control), where he served from 1922 to 1927. From there he went by scholarship to two private secondary schools: Wellington for one term and Eton for four-and-a-half years. He later claimed that his experiences there determined his views on the English class system (Orwell was a socialist who rejected the British idea of hereditary social classes). When he was eight years old, he was sent to a private preparatory school in Sussex. When Orwell was four years old, his family returned to England and settled at Henley, a village near London.

Many British government officials worked and lived there, including Orwell's father, Richard Walmesley Blair, a minor customs official in the opium department of the Indian Civil Service. At the time, India was under direct British control (it remained so until 1947). George Orwell was born Eric Arthur Blair in Motihari, Bengal, India in 1903. Works in Biographical and Historical Context

In these works, as in the other writing that filled the rest of his career, he gauged the contemporary European scene of the troubled 1930s and 1940s with critical insight drawn from personal experience and a deep moral commitment. Although he was never primarily a writer of speculative fiction, these works have been extremely influential in the fields of fantasy and science fiction. George Orwell gained an enduring international reputation with his two last works of fiction, Animal Farm (1945) and Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949). “Politics and the English Language” (1946)

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