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 Englishman changed forever by his experiences in colonial Burma.Įmma Larkin pursues the young Eric Blair (the pseudonym would come later) all over Burma in "Finding George Orwell in Burma," revisiting the places where he lived and worked to re-imagine the experiences that helped shape his political outlook and his writing. He left in 1927, fed up with "the dirty work of Empire," but the country never quite left him. Fresh out of Eton, George Orwell spent five years in Burma as a policeman in the colonial service.
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