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Down and Out in Paris and London 1933

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Burmese Days 1934

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Podcast 2 examining the book Burmese Days for the Honors tutorial,

George Orwell & Twentieth Century Political Life taught by Professor Rob Glover

in the Honors College at the University of Maine.

A Clergyman's Daughter 1935

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A Clergyman's Daughter is Orwell's most formally experimental novel, featuring a chapter written

entirely in dramatic form, but he was never satisfied with it and he left instructions that after his death it was not tobe reprinted. Orwell had a long time friend named Brenda Salkeld, a gym teacher at St. Felix School. She was the daughter of a clergyman. Orwell wanted to marry her but she rejected his proposal of marriage, though shewas to remain a friend and regular correspondent about his work for many years to follow. He started writing A Clergyman's Daughter in mid-January 1934 and had finished by 3 October 1934. After sending the work to

his agent Leonard Moore, he left Southwold to work part time in a Hampstead bookshop. After various last-minutealterations for fear of libel, A Clergyman's Daughter was published on 11 March 1935.

Shooting an Elephant 1936

"Shooting an Elephant" is an essay by George Orwell, written during the autumn of 1936. Orwell tells of shooting an elephant in British-controlled Burma as an Imperial Policeman in 1926.

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Keep the Aspidistra Flying 1936

Keep the Aspidistra Flying, first published 1936, is a grimly comic novel by George Orwell. It is set in 1930s London. The main theme is the protagonist's romantic ambition to give up money and status, and the squalid life that results. Orwell based the novel, in part, on experiences he had while researching another book about poverty, Down and Out in Paris and London.

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The Road to Wigan Pier 1937

The Road to Wigan Pier was written by George Orwell and published in 1937. It is a sociological analysis of living conditions in the industrial north of England before World War II that was commissioned by the Left Book Club in January 1936.