A new edition of Orwell's early work, showing the origins of his commitment to social justice.
George Orwell, the pseudonym of Eric Arthur Blair, was born in
Bengal, India, in 1903. He was educated at Eton and became a
policeman in Burma. After leaving the police, he began to
investigate the poverty in India and Europe which shaped his
thinking about equality, money and power. His great works, Animal
Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four are a product of his hatred of
totalitarianism in all its forms and he was as critical of Stalin
in the 1930s as he was ready to fight Fascism in the Spanish Civil
War. His legacy of writing and political thought is much admired
today. He died of tuberculosis in 1950.
Dr. Jaron Murphy (Introduction) is a Senior Lecturer in
Communication, Journalism and Literature at Bournemouth University.
An award-winning journalist, he holds a DPhil in Literature from
the University of Oxford. In 2018, he appeared on the National
Council for the Training of Journalists (NCTJ) list of most
respected journalists following research by Cardiff University
which asked journalists working in the UK and Ireland 'which living
journalist they felt most embodies the values of journalism that
they respect and adhere to'. His scholarship on Orwell includes the
chapter 'Orwell the Journalist' for the impending Oxford Handbook
of George Orwell (OUP). In 2022, he was Chair of the judging panel
for the UK-wide Young Journalist's Award sponsored by the Orwell
Society and National Union of Journalists. The panel included
Orwell's son, Richard Blair, who is Patron of the Orwell Society.
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