title: 20th Century Burmese Days (Twentieth Century Classics)
author:  George Orwell 
description: George Orwell, written in 1934, based on his experiences while serving with the Indian Imperial Police in Burma.
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  #### PENGUIN MODERN CLASSICS
  
  
  ##### THE LION AND THE UNICORN
  
  
  George Orwell (whose real name was Eric Arthur Blair) was born in 1903 in
  India and then went to Eton when his family moved back to England. From 1922
  to 1927 he served with the Indian Imperial Police in Burma, an experience that
  inspired his first novel, _Burmese Days_ (1934). He lived in Paris for two
  years before returning to England, where he worked successively as a private
  tutor, schoolteacher and bookshop assistant, and wrote reviews and articles.
  _Down and Out in Paris and London_ was published in 1936. In 1936 he was
  commissioned to visit areas of mass unemployment in Lancashire and Yorkshire,
  and _The Road to Wigan Pier_ (1937) is a powerful description of the poverty
  he saw there. At the end of 1936 Orwell went to Spain to fight for the
  Republicans and was wounded. _Homage to Catalonia_ is his account of the civil
  war. Orwell was admitted to a sanatorium in 1938 and from then on was never
  fully fit. He spent 