With a loud deep fart from the bottom of my heart! ‘And I hope you’ve grown a lovely new pile. "Then up waddled Wog and he squeaked in Greek:Ĭrace replied in Latin with his toadlike smile: And while studying at Eton College, Orwell made up a song about John Crace, his school’s housemaster, in which he made fun of Crace’s appearance and penchant for Italian art: He was a prankster.īlair was expelled from his "crammer" school (an institution designed to help students "cram" for specific exams) for sending a birthday message attached to a dead rat to the town surveyor, according to Sir Bernard Crick's George Orwell: A Life, the first complete biography of Orwell. It was finally published in 1968 after his death.
In this account, he called the school’s proprietors “terrible, all-powerful monsters” and labeled the institution itself "an expensive and snobbish school which was in process of becoming more snobbish, and, I imagine, more expensive." While Blair's misery is now considered to be somewhat exaggerated, the essay was deemed too libelous to print at the time. Cyprian School for boys in Eastbourne, England, which later inspired his melodramatic essay Such, Such Were the Joys. George Orwell attended prep school as a child-and hated it.Įric Blair spent five years at the St.
Here are 13 facts about Orwell’s life that may surprise you. He's best known for penning the dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four-regarded as one of the greatest classics of all time-but writing novels was only one small facet of his life and career. Looking back now, his life proved to be anything but ordinary. Before he assumed the pen name George Orwell, Eric Arthur Blair (June 25, 1903-January 21, 1950) had a relatively normal upbringing for an upper-middle-class English boy of his time.
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