Happy Birthday George
Eric Arthur Blair was born in 1903 on today's date. George Orwell was the pen name he used to write as a novelist and journalist. My father was a great fan of Orwell but I came to him as many of my generation did through studying his novels ' Nineteen Eighty-Four ' (written in 1949) and ' Animal Farm ' (1945) at school. There are a handful of books and plays that have remained with me from school - Day of the Triffids, Macbeth, Great Expectations and the Orwell novels.