ORWELL

What This Book Covers

1. Chapter One - The Imperial Mask
2. Chapter Two - Down and Out
3. Chapter Three - The Road to Wigan Pier
4. Chapter Four - Fighting for Nothing
5. Chapter Five - Books vs. Bombs
6. Chapter Six - The Animal Revolution
7. Chapter Seven - 1984
8. Chapter Eight - The Man Who Died Watching

Excerpt

CHAPTER ONE The Imperial Mask BEFORE HE WAS Orwell, he was Eric Arthur Blair — a boy born in India, raised in England, and sent back into empire like a package with no return address. He grew up in the soft rot of the British middle class: good name, no money, and just enough shame to keep everyone quiet about it. That’s the thing about empire — it infects the mind long before it hands you a gun. At nineteen, Blair joined the Indian Imperial Police in Burma. Not because he wanted to serve the crown. But because it was what boys like him did when they didn’t know who they were. Five years in a foreign land, wearing the uniform of colonial power, gave him a front-row seat to the machinery of...