This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Orwell 00:01:39 1 Life 00:01:48 1.1 Early years 00:08:20 1.2 Policing in Burma 00:13:04 1.3 London and Paris 00:17:19 1.4 Southwold 00:20:51 1.5 Teaching career 00:24:24 1.6 Hampstead 00:27:10 1.7 iThe Road to Wigan Pier/i 00:32:55 1.8 The Spanish Civil War 00:39:36 1.9 Rest and recuperation 00:42:04 1.10 Second World War and iAnimal Farm/i 00:51:43 1.11 Jura and iNineteen Eighty-Four/i 00:58:41 1.12 Final months and death 01:02:05 2 Literary career and legacy 01:04:21 2.1 Literary influences 01:07:28 2.2 Orwell as literary critic 01:09:36 2.3 Food writing 01:11:00 2.4 Reception and evaluations of Orwell's works 01:16:03 2.5 Influence on language and writing 01:19:05 2.6 Modern culture 01:19:43 2.7 Statue 01:20:23 3 Personal life 01:20:32 3.1 Childhood 01:23:43 3.2 Relationships and marriage 01:26:38 3.3 Social interactions 01:31:07 3.4 Lifestyle 01:33:39 4 Views 01:33:48 4.1 Religion 01:36:25 4.2 Politics 01:47:42 4.3 Sexuality 01:49:47 5 Biographies of Orwell 01:52:42 6 Ancestry 01:52:51 7 Bibliography 01:53:00 7.1 Novels 01:53:29 7.2 Nonfiction 01:53:49 8 Notes 01:53:58 9 See also Listening is a more natural way of learning, when compared to reading. Written language only began at around 3200 BC, but spoken language has existed long ago. Learning by listening is a great way to: - increases imagination and understanding - improves your listening skills - improves your own spoken accent - learn while on the move - reduce eye strain Now learn the vast amount of general knowledge available on Wikipedia through audio (audio article). You could even learn subconsciously by playing the audio while you are sleeping! If you are planning to listen a lot, you could try using a bone conduction headphone, or a standard speaker instead of an earphone. Listen on Google Assistant through Extra Audio: https://assistant.google.com/services/invoke/uid/0000001a130b3f91 Other Wikipedia audio articles at: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=wikipedia+tts Upload your own Wikipedia articles through: https://github.com/nodef/wikipedia-tts Speaking Rate: 0.8896344448400368 Voice name: en-GB-Wavenet-B "I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think." - Socrates SUMMARY ======= Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950), better known by his pen name George Orwell, was an English novelist, essayist, journalist and critic, whose work is marked by lucid prose, awareness of social injustice, opposition to totalitarianism, and outspoken support of democratic socialism.Orwell wrote literary criticism, poetry, fiction and polemical journalism. He is best known for the allegorical novella Animal Farm (1945) and the dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949). His non-fiction works, including The Road to Wigan Pier (1937), documenting his experience of working class life in the north of England, and Homage to Catalonia (1938), an account of his experiences on the Republican side in the Spanish Civil War, are widely acclaimed, as are his essays on politics, literature, language and culture. In 2008, The Times ranked him second on a list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945".Orwell's work continues to influence popular and political culture and the term "Orwellian"—descriptive of totalitarian or authoritarian social practices—has entered the language together with many of his neologisms, including "Big Brother", "Thought Police", "Room 101", "memory hole", "newspeak", "doublethink", "proles", "unperson" and "thoughtcrime".