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FINDING GEORGE ORWELL BOOKS / Nonfiction
From: International Herald Tribune
Date: 20050610
Author:William Grimes
William Grimes
International Herald Tribune
06-10-2005
FINDING GEORGE ORWELL IN BURMABy Emma Larkin.294 pages. $22.95. Penguin Press. *Reviewed by William Grimes*Fresh out of Eton, George Orwell spent five years in Burma as a policeman in the colonial service. He left in 1927, fed up with ''the dirty work of Empire,'' but the country never quite left him. It provided the material for the novel ''Burmese Days'' and one of his most famous essays, ''Shooting an Elephant.'' In his final days, as he lay dying of tuberculosis, he sketched out a novella, ''A Smoking Room Story,'' about a young ...
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