for Spain.
1937 He lives in Spain from January to June. George Orwell gets involved
into street fightings in Barcelona between the government and anarchist
troops. One day he gets wounded at the throat by a sniper. In March of this year The Road To Wigan Pier is published. There is a Left Book Club edition of 40.000 copies of this book.
1938 Orwell comes into a tubercolosis sanatorium in Kent. Homage To
Catalonia is published in April. In September he goes to Morocco for his health.
1939 In this year Orwell's father Richard Blair dies. George Orwell
comes back to England after his stay in Morocco. In June the book Coming Up For Air is published.
1940 Inside The Whale gets published in March. In May he moves to
London. Orwell writes for Time and Tide and Tribune. In this year he
joins the Local Defense Volunteers (Home Guards).
1941 - 1943 The Lion And The Unicorn is published in February
1941. Orwell starts at the BBC as the Talks Producer
in charge of broadcasting to India and Southeast Asia.
In 1943 his mother dies. Orwell also starts his work on Animal Farm in this year.
1943 – 1946 Orwell works as the Literary Editor of Tribune.
1945 Orwell is now a war correspondent for The Observer in Paris and
Cologne (March – May). Death of his wife Eileen on March 29th. He
covers the first post-war election campaign (June – July). Animal Farm is published in August after problems finding a publisher for this book.
1946 Critical Essays is published in February. Orwell moves to Barnhill, Isle
of Jura in May. Animal Farm is elected "the book of the month" in the USA and sells half a million copies there.
1947 On Christmas Eve of this year Orwell enters Hairmyres Hospital, near
Glasglow, with tuberculosis of the left lung. Starts writing Nineteen
1948 He returns to Barnhill and completes the revision Nineteen Eighty –
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