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Animal farm : a fairy story, Orwell, George

Notes on the author, his work, time:

George Orwell (1903-1950) (pen name for Eric Arthur Blair) - the famous English writer, is the author of 'Nineteen Eighty-Four' (also known as '1984'), 'Animal Farm: A Fairy Story' (or 'Animal Farm'), very famous books. He was born in Motihari, Bengal, India, as the second child of Richard Walmesley Blair and Ida Mabel Limonzin. His father was a civil servant in the opium department and his mother was the daughter of a tea-merchant in Burma. In 1904 Orwell moved