Following in the Footsteps of George Orwell, Who Wrote ‘1984’ Classic on Isle of Jura and Covered Spanish Civil War

In our 2015 summer travels, my wife and I kept running into the literary legacy of George Orwell, the pen name of Eric Arthur Blair. In Barcelona, we learned that in the 1930s, he covered the Spanish civil war and wrote a book, Homage to Catalonia. In the 1940s, he published the classics, Animal Farm, and 1984, the latter written on the Isle of Jura in …