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Zusatztext With absolute confidence, after several false starts, the mature George Orwell takes charge of this idiosyncratic account of working-class life from his first page. Informationen zum Autor Eric Arthur Blair (George Orwell) was born in 1903 in India where his father was a civil servant. After studying at Eton, he served with the Indian Imperial Police in Burma for several years which inspired his first novel, Burmese Days . After two years in Paris, he returned to England to work as a teacher and then in a bookshop. In 1936 he travelled to Spain to fight for the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War, where he was badly wounded. During the Second World War he worked for the BBC. A prolific journalist and essayist, Orwell wrote some of the most influential books in English literature, including the dystopian Nineteen Eighty-Four and his political allegory Animal Farm . He died from tuberculosis in 1950. Klappentext If there is one type of man to whom I do feel myself inferior, it is a coal-miner Vorwort An angry account of working-class life in the 1930s and a call to embrace social equality. With an introduction by Amelia Gentleman. Zusammenfassung An angry account of working-class life in the 1930s and a call to embrace social equality. With an introduction by Amelia Gentleman.
