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The child thinks of growing old as an almost obscene calamity, which for some mysterious reason will never happen to itself. All who have passed the age of thirty are joyless grotesques, endlessly fussing about things of no importance and staying alive without, so far as the child can see, having anything to live for. Only child life is real life.
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Birth: | 25th June, 1903 |
Death: | 21st January, 1950 |
Nationality: | British |
Profession: | Essayist, Journalist, Novelist |
Eric Arthur Blair who used the pen name George Orwell was born in Motihari, Bengal Presidency, British India. He was an English novelist, essayist, journalist, and critic. He wrote literary criticism, fiction, nonfiction, and polemical journalism. He wrote several novels include: Burmese Days, A Clergyman's Daughter, Keep the Aspidistra Flying, Coming Up for Air, and Nineteen Eighty-Four. His nonfiction works include: Down and Out in Paris and London, The Road to Wigan Pier, and Homage to Catalonia. He wrote one novella include: Animal Farm. He wrote several essays include: Politics and the English Language, Why I Write, A Hanging, Such, Such Were the Joys, and England Your England.
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