George Orwell 简介.pptVIP

George Orwell （1903～1950） Real name:Eric Arthur Blair George Orwell English novelist, essayist, and critic. Orwell called his famiy as the lower-middle-class people whose pretensions to social status had little relation to their income. He had sent in 1911 to a preparatory boarding school on the Sussex coast, where he was distinguished among the other boys by his poverty and his intellectual brilliance. Orwell decided to follow family tradition and, in 1922, went to Burma as assistant district superintendent in the Indian Imperial Police. In 1927 Orwell, on leave to England, decided not to return to Burma. After that he bad been a vagabondage for four years. In 1936, he went to Barcelona as a journalist to report the Spanish Civil War（西班牙内战 1936~1939）. After the beging of the World War II, he went to London and took an active part in the war. 1931 A Hanging essay 1933 Down And OutI In Paris And London ( first use the pen name George Orwell ) 1934 Burmese Days ( basic on the experience in Burmese) 1935 A Clergymans Daughter 1936 Keep The Aspidistra Flying ( the wokers’ life ) 1938 Homage to Catalonia ( the experience in Spain) 1939 Coming Up For Air 1940 Inside the Whale (commentary writing ) 1941 The Lion and The Unicorn ( the World War II ) 1945 Animal Farm ( the milestone) 1946 Politics and the English Language essay 1946 How the Poor Die 1948 1984 ( totalitarian socity ) 1949 Reflections on Gandhi 1950 Shooting An Elephant essay His work is marked by keen intelligence and wit, a profound awareness of social injustice, an intense opposition to totalitarianism（极权主义）, a passion for clarity in language and a belief in democratic socialism. Orwells influence on popular and political culture endures, and several of his neologisms, along with the term Orwellian — a byword for totalitarian or manipulative social practices — have entered the vernacular. What are Orwell’s best remembered scathingly satirical and frighteningly political novels?