George Orwell's Essays: Introduction
George Orwell. Where to start? It is sometimes said that there is ‘peak’ age for reading the writings of George Orwell. As it happens, that time in a human life roughly corresponds to the age you are now. Orwell (1903-1950) was born Eric Arthur Blair in Motihari, India, and is often regarded as one of the most important writers in English in the 20th century. Educated at the ‘elite’ Eton College, he packed a lot into...