George Orwell

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the "Imperial Indian Police," and after five years in Burma, resigned in 1928 ("," The Oxford Anthology 2140). Burma left him with a "lifelong distaste" for power ("," St. Martin's Anthologies 398). Orwell remained living a "life of poverty" in England and Europe until the mid-1930's (Wadsworth 866).
In 1927 after an attack of "dengue fever" he returned to Europe ("Orwell," The Oxford Companion). In 1936 he took over a village store, married, and was commisioned to write about England's umemployed. When liviing among the poor, he wrote Wigan Pier, which helped him develop his own kind of politics: "Anti-imperialist,, anti-capitalist, but not identified with any socialist institution" (," The Oxford Anthology 2140). "A strong autobiographical element runs through most of Orwell's writings, giving both his novels and essays a sense of immediacy and conviction" (Wadsworth 866). At the time of publication of Wigan Pier Orwell was alreaady in Sspain fighting the the ...

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