George Orwell
George Orwell (1903 -
1950) is one of the most important writers of the 2oth
Century. Born Eric Blair, he was from what he later
described as an 'impoverished middle-class' home.
After attending Eton school. he went to serve the
British Empire as a policeman in Burma during the 1920s.
He later said, 'In Burma I was
hated by large numbers of people – the only time in
my life that I have been important enough for this to
happen to me.'
Orwell's Burmese experience was the subject of his first
novel 'Burmese Days' and some of his most famous essays
including: Shooting an Elephant.
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Shooting an
Elephant here.
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