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Novelist George orwell loses tuberculosis fight

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From: Lincolnshire Echo
Date: 20080115
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Acclaimed author, George Orwell lost his three-year battle against tuberculosis on January 21, 1950.

He was born Eric Arthur Blair in 1903 into a family of prosperous civil servants working in India.

But much of his early writing reflected his own experiences of poverty, for despite his privileged background he had spent time living as a tramp in the East End of London.

His two most influential books were the controversial Animal Farm, which was widely viewed as an attack on the Communist system, and his final novel, 1984, which was published the summer before he died and written between ...

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