![]() ![]() ![]() In her book Secret Histories Emma Larkin explores the impact of this time upon his work. In the 1920’s George Orwell (still living under his real name of Eric Blair) lived in Burma for five years working as a police officer for the imperial police force. He looked at me with a brilliant flash of recognition, slapped his forehead gleefully, and said ‘You mean the Prophet’ “George Orwell’ I repeated ‘The author of nineteen eighty four’ The old man’s eyes suddenly lit up. This book instantly fascinated me I particularly remembered. I enjoyed them all – but until I came across this book in 2007 I sort of forgot all about dear old George. Many years ago I read George Orwell’s Animal Farm, Nineteen Eighty Four (which rather terrified me as it was before the real 1984 and I was scared it might come true) The Clergyman’s Daughter and Keeping the Aspidistra Flying. It even arrived in time to fit into my month of re-reading. So when Kaggsy from Librarything recently offered me a second hand copy she had found I was delighted. Well it proved rather harder to get a cheap copy (I balked at the some of the high prices on the internet). I loved it – but rather rashly gave away my copy thinking I could get another copy easily. I first read this book just over 5 years ago – I had to check back to be sure of when it was. ![]()
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