George Orwell 1984 The New American Library Copyright 1961 George Orwell <The information concerning the author's background was not included in the book.> George Orwell, whose real name was Eric Blair, was born in Bengal, India, in 1903. When he was eight years old, as it was customary, his mother brought him back to England to be educated. He was sent to a boarding school on the south coast, a school whose students were sons of …showed first 75 words of 1493 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1493 total…impact on me. The best thing about it was that anyone could pick up this book and get the jest of it. It was not imperative to understand what utopia meant or have any knowledge of W.W.II, Nazi Germany, or the Soviet Union or to understand the book. As I had said before, I had to refresh my history of W.W.II but this did not hinder me from enjoying the book.