George Orwell: In front of your nose, 1946-1950

George Orwell

David R Godine Pub, Aug 1, 2000 - Literary Collections - 496 pages

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About the author

George Orwell was born Eric Arthur Blair in 1903 in Motihari in Bengal, India and later studied at Eton for four years. Orwell was an assistant superintendent with the Indian Imperial Police in Burma. He left the position after five years and then moved to Paris, where he wrote his first two books, Burmese Days and Down and Out In Paris. Orwell then moved to Spain to write but decided to join the United Workers Marxist Party Militia. After being decidedly opposed to communism, Orwell served in the British Home Guard and with the Indian Service of the BBC during World War II. He started writing for the Observer and was literary editor for the Tribune. Soon after he published the world-famous book, Animal Farm, which became a huge success for Orwell. It was then towards the end of his life when Orwell wrote Nineteen Eighty-Four. George Orwell died on January 23, 1950 in London.

Ian Angus is an associate professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Simon Fraser University.

Lenore Langsdorf is an associate professor in the Department of Speech Communication at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale.

Bibliographic information

• Title: George Orwell: In front of your nose, 1946-1950; Volume 4 of George Orwell: The Collected Essays, Journalism & Letters, Sonia Orwell; Volume 4 of George Orwell: Volume 4 : in Front of Your Nose, 1945-1950, George Orwell; Volume 4 of In Front of Your Nose, 1945-1950, George Orwell; Volume 89 of Nonpareil books; Volume 4 of The Collected Essays, Journalism, and Letters of George Orwell, Sonia Orwell
• Author: George Orwell
• Editors: Sonia Orwell, Ian Angus
• Edition: reprint
• Publisher: David R Godine Pub, 2000
• ISBN: 1567921361, 9781567921366
• Length: 496 pages
• Subjects: Literary Collections / Essays; Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh