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Gia đình Orwell sau đó sống sáu tháng tại Morocco để ông bình phục vết thương, và trong giai đoạn này, ông đã viết cuốn tiểu thuyết trước chiến tranh cuối cùng của mình, Coming Up For Air. As the most English of all his novels, the alarms of war mingle with idyllic images of a Thames-side Edwardian childhood enjoyed by its protagonist, George Bowling. Much of the novel is pessimistic; industrialism and capitalism have killed the best of old England. There were also massive and new external threats and George Bowling puts the totalitarian hypothesis of Borkenau, Orwell, Silone and Koestler in homely terms: "Old Hitler's something different. So's Joe Stalin. They aren't like these chaps in the old days who crucified people and chopped their heads off and so forth, just for the fun of it … They're something quite new — something that's never been heard of before."
== Thế chiến thứ 2 và "[[Trại súc vật]]" ==
After the ordeals of Spain and writing the book about it, most of Orwell's formative experiences were over. His finest writing, his best essays and his great fame lay ahead. In 1940, Orwell closed up his house in Wallington and he and Eileen moved into 18 Dorset Chambers, Chagford Street, NW1. He supported himself by writing freelance reviews, mainly for the ''New English Weekly'' but also for ''Time and Tide'' and the ''New Statesman''. He joined the [[British Home Guard]] soon after the war began (and was later awarded the "British Campaign Medals/Defence medal").
In 1941 Orwell took a job at the [[BBC]] Eastern Service, supervising broadcasts to India aimed at stimulating Indian interest in the war effort, at a time when the Japanese army was at India's doorstep. He was well aware that he was engaged in propaganda, and wrote that he felt like "an orange that's been trodden on by a very dirty boot".
The wartime "Ministry of Information", which was based at Senate House University of London, was the inspiration for the "Ministry of Truth" in ''Nineteen Eighty-Four''. Nonetheless, Orwell devoted a good deal of effort to his BBC work, which gave him an opportunity to work closely with people like [[T. S. Eliot]], [[E. M. Forster]], [[Mulk Raj Anand]] and [[William Empson]].
Orwell's decision to resign from the BBC followed a report confirming his fears about the broadcasts: very few Indians were listening. He wanted to become a war correspondent and also seems to have been impatient to begin work on ''Animal Farm''.
Despite the good salary, he resigned in tháng 9 năm 1943 and in November became the literary editor of ''[[Tribune (magazine)|Tribune]]'', the [[left-wing]] weekly then edited by [[Aneurin Bevan]] and [[Jon Kimche]] (it was Kimche who had been [[Cox and Box|Box]] to Orwell's [[Cox and Box|Cox]] when they both worked as half-time assistants in the Hampstead bookshop in 1934–35). Orwell was on the staff until early 1945, contributing a regular column titled "As I Please." [[Anthony Powell]] and [[Malcolm Muggeridge]] had returned from overseas to finish the war in London. All three took to lunching regularly, usually at the Bodega just off the Strand or the Bourgogne in Soho, sometimes joined by [[Julian Symons]] (who seemed at the time to be Orwell's true disciple), and [[David Astor]], editor/owner of The Observer.
In 1944, Orwell finished his anti-Stalinist [[allegory]] ''[[Trại súc vật|Animal Farm]]'', which was first published in Britain on [[17 tháng 8]] [[1945]] and in the U.S.A on the [[26 tháng 8]] [[1946]] with great critical and popular success. Frank Morley, an editor at Harcourt Brace, had come to Britain as soon as he could at the end of the War to see what readers were currently interested in. He asked to serve a week or so in Bowes and Bowes, the Cambridge bookshop. On his first day there customers kept asking for a book that had sold out — the second impression of ''Animal Farm''. He left the counter, read the single copy left in the postal orders' department, went to London and bought the American rights. The royalties from ''Animal Farm'' were to provide Orwell with a comfortable income for the first time in his adult life.
While ''Animal Farm'' was at the printer, and with the end of the War in sight, Orwell felt his old desire growing to be somehow in the thick of the action. David Astor asked him to act as a war correspondent for the Observer to cover the liberation of France and the early occupation of Germany, so Orwell left ''[[Tribune (magazine)|Tribune]]'' to become a war correspondent. Orwell was a close friend of Astor (some say the model for the wealthy publisher in ''Keep the Aspidistra Flying''), and his ideas had a strong influence on Astor's editorial policies. Astor, who died in 2001, is buried in the grave next to Orwell.
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