Turning points

Went to St Cyprian's school in Eastbourne

Joined the British police in Burma

Became a writer

Began living among the poor

Journeyed to Paris 

Worked as a teacher in small private school

Got part time job,Second hand bookshop

Married first wife Elieen

Commissioned to write a book about poverty in northern England

Fight in Spanish civil war

Rejected for military

Worked for BBC

Married second wife Sonia

Achievements

Won scholarship to Euton

1933 first book published,Down and Out in Paris and London

1934 first novel Burmese Days published

1935 another novel Clergyman's Daughter published

1937 Road to Wigan pier published

1938 Wrote A Homage to Catalonia published

1939 Coming Up For Air published

1945 Animal Farm staire published

1949 Masterpiece 1984 published