George Orwell

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This paper traces the life of famous writer, George Orwell, from his birth in India while his parents were on official government duty, his Eton education and his self-imposed poverty which finally led to him resigning from his government job and writing full time. The paper examines several of Orwell's works, including "Down and Out in Paris and London" (1933) and "The Road to Wigah Pier" (1937), but focuses specifically on Orwell's greatest piece, the political satire, "Animal Farm."

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"Animal Farm was a satire of the hopes and failures of the Russian Revolution. Animal Farm expressed Orwell's anti-Stalinist convictions in this political allegory type novel. This novel presented the story of an English farm taken over by farm animals. It tells how the animals captured Manor Farm from its drunken incompetent farmer, and how the animals changed the name of the farm to Animal Farm. They established it as a model community in which all animals were created equal."

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