Now Eric plunged into finishing the book, and despite the fact that it took about 2 more years, it was exactly the book he had wanted to write initially. ... ("Orwell- 2) The book was published as, Down and Out in Paris and London, in 1933 by the House of Gollancz. ... In 1946 he attempted to settle in the Scottish island of Jura, where he stated his last book, 1984. ... Indeed he said that the book wouldn't have been so gloomy has be not been so ill. ("Orwell-2) Eric Blair died in January 1950 of a tuberculosis hemorrhage, having just finished 1984. ...

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