George Orwell
Great Lives
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George orwell is perhaps best known for the distopian 19 84 and the satirical nevella animal farm. His name has been incorporated into the english language with the term orwellian. He spent his last years in near isolation on that remote island of jura in the scottish hebrides frantically, battling against his own body to keep writing. The first draught of his new novel lies on the bed. It may or may not know it, but this will be his last book though e is only forty six.
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