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George Orwell
Known best for his powerful anti-utopian novels Animal Farm (1945) and Nineteen Eighty-four (1949), English author George Orwell came to be regarded as a prophetic voice in 20th-century literature.
George Orwell earned his admission to both Wellington and Eton by winning scholarships to these prestigious institutions.12
After attending a preparatory boarding school in Sussex, where he was noted for his intellectual brilliance, he briefly attended Wellington before transferring to Eton, where he studied from 1917 to 1921.12