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Tuesday, August 13, 2019

George Orwell Achievement and Turning point

- Achievement

 -  he won a scholarship. 
 -  his first book Down and Out published in Paris and London.
 - his first novel "Burmese Days" published.
 - another novel "A Clergyman's Daughter" published.
 - he wrote a book about poverty in northern     England.
 -  wrote A Homage to Catalonia.
 -  another novel "Coming Up For Air" published.
 -  became literary editor for the Tribune a left wing magazine.
 -  his great satire Animal Farm published.
 -  his masterpiece 1948 published.

- Turning points

 -  Orwell joined the British police in Burma.
 -  He resigned
 -  decided to become a writer.
 -  He began living among the poor.
 -  he journeyed to Paris.
 -  he worked as a teacher.
 -  got a part time job.
 -  married.
 -  fought in the Spanish Civil War.
 -  suffered from tuberculosis.
 -  spent the winter in Morocco.
 -  He was rejected for military service at the beginning of the Second World War.
 -  worked for the BBC.
 -  he became literary editor for a magazine company.
 -  his health was failing.
 -  married his second wife.

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