Orwell's England

Informationen zum Autor Born in India in 1903 George Orwell moved to England with his family in 1907. He was educated at Eton and joined the Indian Imperial Police, serving five years in Burma before returning to Europe. The period of poverty that followed inspired DOWN AND OUT IN PARIS AND LONDON (1933). In 1937 he published THE ROAD TO WIGAN PIER. His political convictions led him to fight for the Republicans in Spain and to write HOMAGE TO CATALONIA. In 1945 ANIMAL FARM was published. Orwell died of TB in 1950. Klappentext Includes the text of "The Road to Wigan Pier" - a documentary of unemployment and proletarian life - as well as the author's writing on the political and social condition of England. Zusammenfassung Collected together for the first time, this volume includes the complete text of THE ROAD TO WIGAN PIER - Orwell's vivid and impassioned documentary of unemployment and proletarian life - as well as Orwell's best writing on the political and social condition of England.

Product details

• Authors: George Orwell
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 03.05.2001
• EAN: 9780141185170
• ISBN: 978-0-14-118517-0
• No. of pages: 496
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 200 mm x 22 mm
• Series: Penguin Modern Classics
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature