My Aunt Dahlia, who runs a woman's paper called Milady's Boudoir, had recently backed me into a corner and made me promise to write her a few words for her "Husbands and Brothers" page on "What the Well-Dressed Man is Wearing". I believe in encouraging aunts, when deserving; and, as there are many worse eggs than her knocking about the metrop, I had consented blithely. But I give you my honest word that if I had had the foggiest notion of what I was letting myself in for, not even a nephew's devotion would have kept me from giving her the raspberry. A deuce of a job it had been, taxing the physique to the utmost. I don't wonder now that all these author blokes have bald heads and faces like birds who have suffered. P.g. Wodehouse
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George Orwell was a prominent figure in the English literary scene, best known for his satirical novel 1984 which was published in 1949. He was one of the most influential political essayists of the 20th century. He once wrote some advice about writing, which is similar to advice given by many other writers throughout history. The advice begins with the writer giving his life story, and then some advice about writing which can be summarised as follows: - never be satisfied with what you have written - write every day - read widely - practice writing something every day The rest of the advice is about how to become a writer. O'Brien's own writing career started when he was twenty-five years old. For the next few years he wrote numerous short pieces for various newspapers and magazines. Most of these were written under several pseudonyms, including "George Orwell" and "Eric Blair", names that were later used by others to identify him. He finally began publishing his work in 1919 under his own name, but only after people had begun to refer to him as George Orwell, mostly because of his literary style.

The first title of importance that he published was Burmese Days (1934), a memoir of his experiences during World War I in Burma (now Myanmar). The book shows a strong sympathy for the Burmese people and their plight during British colonial rule over them. The book is considered by many critics to be Orwell's finest work. One reviewer stated: "George Orwell has done it again! His prose has become so fine and so delicate that we can no longer see where we leave off and he begins."  Another critic said: "No other Englishman has written so well about Burma."  Orwell dedicated the book to Ethel Piovene who had been one of his comrades during World War I, and also provided her with a copy of the manuscript.

During this period he also wrote Down and Out in Paris and London (1933), The Road to Wigan Pier (1937), Homage to Catalonia (1938), Keep the Aspidistra Flying (1936) and Coming Up for Air (1939). After World War II Orwell went into self-imposed exile in order to avoid prison or forced labor by British authorities for his political views and writings against imperialism and fascism, including Animal Farm (1945) and Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949). In 1954 he published two works

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