The Road to Wigan Pier

About George Orwell

George Orwell the pseudonym of Eric Arthur Blair was born in Bengal India in 1903. He was educated at Eton and became a policeman in Burma. After leaving the police he began to investigate the poverty in India and Europe which shaped his thinking about equality money and power. His great works Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four are a product of his hatred of totalitarianism in all its forms and he was as critical of Stalin in the 1930s as he was ready to fight Fascism in the Spanish Civil War. His legacy of writing and political thought is much admired today. He died of tuberculosis in 1950. Débora Tavares (Introduction) has a masters degree in George Orwells 1984 and a PhD degree about Orwells Keep the Aspidistra Flying and The Road to Wigan Pier both from the University of São Paulo. She researches and teaches connections between literature and society as well as Orwells writings. She has published a postface for a Brazilian edition of 1984 together with video classes for 1984 and Animal Farm.