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George Orwell

By Edgar Penón

  • Birthdate

    Eric A. Blair was his born name

  • Moves to London

    Moves to London

  • Admitted in the imperial police

  • Takes imperial police officer post in Burma

  • Resigns and moves to London

  • Moves to Paris and works as a journalist

    Moves to Paris and works as a journalist

  • Returns to England and works as a private child tutor

  • Becomes teacher at a school for boys in Hayes

    Becomes teacher at a school for boys in Hayes

  • Down and Out in Paris and London

    Down and Out in Paris and London
    Narrative autobiographical report under a new pen name -George Orwell. Narrates his own experience living in Paris and London for a year and a half.

  • Burmese Days

    Burmese Days
    Fiction Novel, vaguely based in the five years Orwell spent in Birmania as a police

  • Travels to Spain to take part in the Civil War

  • The Road to Wigan Pier

    The Road to Wigan Pier
    Autobiographical fiction book, based on one of his journeys to the north of England to know more about industrialization.

  • Homage to Catalonia

    Homage to Catalonia
    Biography about his experience at the Spanish civil war

  • Takes work with BBC's Eastern service

  • Adopts child

  • Animal Farm

    Animal Farm
    A short novel that satirises Stalinism and shows how it can corrupt socialism.

  • Nineteen Eighty-Four

    Nineteen Eighty-Four
    Political Novel

  • Dies of Tuberculosis