With two books on the high school required reading list (Animal Farm and 1984), Orwell has certainly distinguished himself as a writer. But did you know that he also distinguished himself as a revolutionary? An Englishman, Orwell fought in the Spanish Civil War against Franco. During the war, he received a nearly fatal bullet wound to the neck.
When told he was lucky to be alive, he responded "it would be even luckier not to be hit at all."
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