His work was destroyed and he and his son spent lots of time going through the rubble to try recovering some things and that is how they salvaged the manuscript for The Animal Farm! Phew! 7.

Luckily, they were not home at the time and no one got hurt, fortunately. The near-destruction of The Animal FarmĪ German bomb was shot at his town destroying most buildings including the house where he, his wife, and son lived. He would later be known to fear communism! 6. He realized that his life was in danger and fled to England. He however had to flee Spain in May of 1937 because he was fighting in Barcelona against the communists. The book is an illuminating expose of the period before the first well recognized publication of George Orwell's(Eric Blair being his original name)in 1949.It has generally been believed that he did not do any writing during the 1940s,especially during the Second World War.The book documents the writings of Eric Blair in the period of the War. He fought there until he got seriously injured and the injury affected his throat which somehow affected his speech. He wrote his book on socialism ‘The Road to Wigan Pier’ in 1937 which was a depiction of his life among the poor, and while the book was going to print, he was in Spain where he joined the Republican militia to fight during the civil war. Birthday messages are harmless unless you, like George, attach a dead rat to the message and sent it to hi. When he was in another institution he sent a birthday message to the town surveyor. But instead, George Orwell while in Eastbourne at the St Cyprian School for Boys, penned down an article which gave a very interesting account of his experience at the school part of it describing the school and the authorities as ‘terrible and all-powerful monsters’! ‘Such Were the Joys’, the name of the essay which had these frustrations was published in 1968 after his death. It is hard to imagine that one of the world’s best authors hated school! You would think that one of the world’s most brilliant literary minds would have loved school from day one. Many people assumed that it was his actual name and therefore he used it in all of his books even though he did not entirely drop his original name! 3. His book ‘Down and Out in Paris and London’, carried the name George Orwell and it stuck. He got the name Orwell from the River Orwell in East Anglia. George Orwell was not born George Orwell! Surprise! surprise! George Orwell was born Eric Arthur Blair in June of 1903.

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