The following biographical note, probably writen by Orwell himself, appeared on the jacket of the originated edition of The Lion and the Unicorn:
 'George Orwell was born in 1903 into an Anglo-Indian and has had a varied history. He was a scholar at Eton, served five years in the Imperial Police in Burma, has been a dishwasher, a schoolmaster, and a bookseller's assisant, and fought and was wounded in the Spanish Civil War.
Best known among his books is The Road to Wigan Pier, with its unforgettable picture of the coalmining industry and the miseries of the Northern slums. Less widely read, but equally worthy of attention, are Homage to Catalonia, one of the best war books, and Burmese Days, one of the few outstanding novels of Anglo-Indian life.
Rejected by the Army on medical grounds, George Orwell is at present a film critic, book-reviewer and sergeant in the Home Guard'