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George Orwell, born Eric Blair in India in 1903, the third generation of colonial service stock, joined the Indian Imperial Police in Burma in 1922 after leaving school in England. Rejecting the racial and cultural barriers of colonial rule he encountered there, he returned to England to become a writer. He became allied to leftist and labour causes and, based on personal participation, documented the life and work of the underprivileged and working classes in England and Paris. He also fought with the leftist alliance in the Spanish Civil War against Franco's army revolt against the Republican Government. Although a fine essayist and master of English prose, he is best known for Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four, two political satires on the Soviet system and totalitarianism respectively. These brought him fame and financial security shortly before his death of tuberculosis at the age of 47, after a life of recurrent ill health and economic hardship.
乔治·奥威尔，1903年出生于印度，原名埃里克·布莱尔，是殖民地服务人员家庭的第三代。1922年，他在英国读完中学后，加入了缅甸的印度帝国警察部队。由于不满在那里所遭遇的殖民统治的种族和文化障碍，他回到英国成为一名作家。他投身于左派和劳工事业，并根据个人经历，记录了英国和巴黎贫困阶层与工人阶级的生活和工作状况。他还在西班牙内战中与左派联盟并肩作战，抗击佛朗哥军队反对共和政府的叛乱。尽管他是一位优秀的散文家，也是英语散文大师，但他最为人所知的作品是《动物农场》和《1984》，这两部作品分别是对苏联体制和极权主义的政治讽刺作品。在经历了一生的反复病痛和经济困境后，他于47岁时因肺结核去世，而这两部作品在他去世前不久为他带来了声誉和经济保障。
