George Orwell

             A detailed chronological timetable of Orwell's life.
             His character, ideas and the typical topics he wrote about.
             3) The most important literal works of George Orwell
             4) Bookreports on some of his books.
             a) Down And Out In Paris And London
             1903 Eric Arthur Blair is born on the 25th of june at Motihari, Bengal in India as the son of Richard Walmesley Blair (a civil servant) and Ida Mabel Blair.
             1904 In this year he is brought to England by his mother, where they
             settle down in Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire.
             1908 - 1911 Eric gets educated at Sunnylands, an Anglican school in
             1911 He leaves Sunnylands and starts at St. Cyprian's School.
             1912 Eric's father retires from the India Civil Service and returns to England.
             The family now moves to Shiplake near Henley.
             1914 Eric Arthur Blair gets his first work, Awake Young Men Of England
             1916 Eric leaves the St. Cyprian's School.
             1917 He starts at Eton College as King's Scholar.
             1921 Eric leaves Eton College.
             1922 Eric Arthur Blair arrives in India as a recruit
             for the Indian Imperial Police in Burma.
             1928 - 1929 He lives now in Paris and workes as a dishwasher. In Ferbruary of 1929
             he gets hospitalized because he suffers from pneumonia.
             1930 Eric workes as schoolmaster in London. He goes tramping in London
             and its surroundings. He writes Down And Out In Paris And London which is rejected twice before it is published. He uses the pseudonym "George Orwell" for the first time.
             1933 Orwell suffers again from pneumonia.
             1934 - 1935 In these years Burmese Days and A Cergyman's Daughter are published. Orwell meets Eileen O'Shaughnessy, who was 30 at this point of time.
             1936 On the 9th of June he marries Eileen O'Shaughnessy. He also gatheres
             information for The Road To Wigan Pier in this year. Keep The Aspidistra Flying is published and in December Orwell leaves ...

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