George Orwell

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ng of 1928, he took a room in a working-class district of Paris.
He wrote two novels, which have been lost, as well as publishing a number
of articles in French and English. He became ill with pneumonia, worked
ten weeks as a dishwasher and kitchen porter, and returned to England at
the end of 1929.
He used his parents’ home in Suffolk for writing and earned money from
occasional articles and teaching. Blair then completed several versions
of what was to become his first book, called, not by his choice, Down and
Out in Paris and London. The book was a record of his experiences, but
“If it’s all the same to everybody, I would prefer [it] to be published
pseudonymously”.
Discussing the publication of his first book with his agent, he decided
on three possible pseudonyms: Keneth Miles, George Orwell and H. Lewis
Allways. He favored George Orwell. The Orwell is a river in Suffolk,
south of his parents’ home. “George Orwell” published his first book in
1933. Down and Out... was followed by the novel Burmese Days, published
first in the United States rather than in England because of his English
publishers fear of it’s giving offence in Burma. After Burmese Days came
two more novels: A Clergyman’s Daughter, published in 1935; and Keep the
Apidistra Flying, published in 1936.
In the Spring of 1936 he moved to Hertfordshire and married Eileen
O’Shaughnessy, an Oxford graduate in English, a teacher, a journalist, and
later a London graduate in psychology. Orwell’s reputation at this time
was based mainly on his accounts of poverty and depression. His next
book, The Road to Wigan Pier was written for the Left Book Club and
started his career as a political writer. Much of this book was composed
of an essay on class and socialism, which was Orwe...