This author also wrote about an insurance salesman who has a disappointing return to Lower Binfield, George Bowling, and the author of London Pleasures, impoverished bookshop clerk Gordon Comstock, in his novels Coming Up For Air and Keep the Aspidistra Flying.
In one of this man's novels, the protagonist's attempt to woo Elizabeth Lackersteen by presenting a tanned leopard hide goes disastrously awry. This author also wrote about an insurance salesman who has a disappointing return to Lower Binfield, George Bowling, and the author of London Pleasures, impoverished bookshop clerk Gordon Comstock, in his novels Coming Up For Air and Keep the Aspidistra Flying. For 10 points, name this writer who described using a .44 Winchester to dispatch a rampaging animal in Burma in "Shooting an Elephant," and also created the reliable Boxer and treacherous Napoleon in Animal Farm.
In one of this man's novels, the protagonist's attempt to woo Elizabeth Lackersteen by presenting a tanned leopard hide goes disastrously awry.
George {Orwell} [or {Eric Arthur Blair}]