: In Moulmein, in Lower Burma, I was hated by large numbers of people — the only time in my life that I have been important enough for this to happen to me.

" By the time Orwell moved to Moulmein, in 1926, " he was most probably ambivalent about the colonial state of which he was a part.

The first such dispute had been over the administration of Moulmein.

The provincial flower is the Night-flowering Jasmine ( Nyctanthes arbortristis ), and the provincial tree is the Moulmein lancewood ( Homalium tomentosum ).

Mawlamyine ( also spelled Mawlamyaing ; ; ; ; formerly Moulmein ) is the third largest city of Burma ( Myanmar ), situated 300 km south east of Yangon and 70 km south of Thaton, at the mouth of Thanlwin ( Salween ) river.

Seafood is a common ingredient in coastal cities such as Sittwe, Kyaukpyu, Mawlamyaing ( formerly Moulmein ), Mergui ( Myeik ) and Dawei, while meat and poultry are more commonly used in landlocked cities like Mandalay.

His mother, Ida Mabel Blair ( née Limouzin ), grew up in Moulmein, Burma, where her French father was involved in speculative ventures.

Blair's maternal grandmother lived at Moulmein, so he chose a posting in Burma.

In April 1926 he moved to Moulmein, where his maternal grandmother lived.

The new railway did not fully connect with the Burmese system, as no bridge crossed the river between Moulmein on the south bank with Martaban on the north bank.

These demonstrations took place mainly on campuses located in the cities of Rangoon, Mandalay and Moulmein and were often followed by closure of universities and colleges.

" Moulmein used to be full of elephants to haul logs in the timber firms.

It was not long after the incident that he was transferred from Moulmein to a quiet post in Upper Burma called Katha.

The paddle steamer Ramapoora ( right ) of the British India Steam Navigation Company on the Rangoon river having just arrived from Moulmein.

Cummings proved her mettle at once, choosing to work alone with Karen evangelists in the malaria-ridden Salween River valley north of Moulmein, but within two years she died of fever.

* Major C. T. Bingham, Thoungyeen Valley, Burma, Tenasserim, Moulmein, Allahabad

In 1826 Karenni chief Kay Poe Du ( from Kyeh Poe Gyi ) sent an emissary to Moulmein, the chief town of British Burma, in order to establish a diplomatic relationship with the British.

In 1862, Sawpja Kay Poe Du sent an emissary to the British government in Moulmein.

In 1869, Sawpja Khwi Tee and Khwi Thjar sent another emissary to Moulmein to renew the alliance agreement with the British government.

During colonial times, Moulmein had a substantial Anglo-Burmese population ; an area of the city was known as ' Little England ' due to the large Anglo-Burmese community.

In 1931, U Sobhana took leave from teaching scriptural studies in Moulmein, South Burma, and went to nearby Thaton to practice intensive Vipassana meditation under Mingun Jetawun Sayādaw ( also rendered Mingun Jetavana Sayādaw ), also known as U Nārada.

The Japanese successfully attacked over the Kawkareik Pass, and captured the port of Moulmein at the mouth of the Salween River after overcoming stiff resistance.

Even today, Nagarathars have formed Sangams in different countries where they meet, preserve their culture, the Tamil Language, built Thendhayuthapani Temples ( Singapore, Rangoon, Moulmein, Mandalay and fifty other locations in Myanmar, Saigon, china town near saigon, Medan, Penang, Kuala Lumpur, Kulim, Valapur ( Balik Pulau ), Alor Setar, Sungai Rambai ( Bukit Mertajam ), Jawi, Taiping, Ipoh, Tanjung Malim, Seremban, Melaka, Batu Pahat, Muar, and many more in Straits settlement and Malaya and donate money for good causes.

The Mon governor of Moulmein rebelled against Pegu and requested Siamese support.

On 5 January 1873 the Marseilles from London, en route from Moulmein to Glasgow, also stranded on the Cannon Rock.

At that time, due to political and religious persecution in Burma, predominantly Pwo-Karen from the hinterlands of Moulmein and Tavoy migrated into the area northeast of the Three Pagodas Pass, where they received formal settlement rights from the Siamese Governor of Kanchanaburi.

Moulmein and the mouth of the Thanlwin River in the early 1900s.

Jeffrey Lewis composed Epitaphium — Children of the Sun for narrator, chamber choir, piano, flute, clarinet and percussion.

The majority of the main characters — Daniel ( the narrator ), Susan, Todd, Bug, Michael, and Abe — are living together in a " geek house ", and their lives are dedicated to their projects and the company.

When the bus reaches its destination, the passengers on the bus — including the narrator — are gradually revealed to be ghosts.

" The Pit and the Pendulum " is a study of the effect terror has on the narrator, starting with the opening line that suggests he is already suffering from death anxiety (" I was sick — sick unto death with that long agony ") and, shortly thereafter, when he loses consciousness upon receiving the death sentence.

It is never entirely clear whether these events actually occurred or were merely a dream — the narrator says that when he initially found a comfortable-looking spot in the roots of the tree, he sat down, " and as my sceptical In Piers Anthony's Bearing an Hourglass, the potent Hourglass of the Incarnation of Time naturally moves the Incarnation in space according to the numerous movements of the globe through the solar system, the solar system through the galaxy, etc.

Genji follows the traditional format of monogatari — telling a tale — particularly evident in its use of a narrator, but Keene claims Murasaki developed the genre far beyond its bounds, and by doing so created a form that is utterly modern.

Although the revolution succeeds in averting ecological disaster, the narrator decries the instincts of many of his fellow Loonies (" Rules, laws — always for other fellow ").

On the other hand the short story " Cal " ( from the collection Gold ), and told by a first-person robot narrator, features a robot who disregards the Three Laws because he has found something far more important — he wants to be a writer.

Norwegian sailor Gustaf Johansen, the narrator of one of the tales in the short story, describes the accidental discovery of the city: " a coast-line of mingled mud, ooze, and weedy Cyclopean masonry which can be nothing less than the tangible substance of earth's supreme terror — the nightmare corpse-city of R ' lyeh ... loathsomely redolent of spheres and dimensions apart from ours ".

The narrator in the story must do as her husband, who is also her doctor, demands, although the treatment he prescribes contrasts directly with what she truly needs — mental stimulation and the freedom to escape the monotony of the room to which she is confined.

The narrator only exists within the world of the story ( and only there — although in non-fiction the narrator and the author can share the same persona, since the real world and the world of the story may be the same ) and present it in a way the audience can comprehend.

The hero's experience is recorded in " notebooks ", which are compiled to form the actual narrative, and which serve to record his unusual, mostly sexual, experiences in British India — the narrator describes himself as dominated by " a devilish indifference " towards " all things having to do with art or metaphysics ", focusing instead on eroticism.

Inspired in part by classical authors who wrote in the pastoral mode — in addition to Virgil and Theocritus including comparatively obscure recently rediscovered Latin poets Calpurnius and Nemesianus — and by Boccaccio's Ameto, Sannazaro depicts a lovelorn first-person narrator (" Sincero ") wandering the countryside ( Arcadia ) and listening to the amorous or mournful songs of the shepherds he meets.

The narrator mentions here that if he had come two hours earlier he would not only have found Sophia but also his niece — for such was the wife of Mr Fitzpatrick, who had run away with her five years before, out of the custody of Mrs Western.

Ronald Shea, the narrator of Campbell's story, enters the temple after visiting the forest and discovers a twenty-foot idol that " represented the god Azathoth — Azathoth as he had been before his exile Outside ":

* Charles Ryder — The protagonist and narrator of the story was raised primarily by his father after his mother died.

" Reflectively, the narrator realises that being forced to impose strict laws and to shoot the elephant — he states his feelings against the act, but submits after comprehending he " had got to shoot the elephant "— illustrates an inherent problem of hegemony: " when the white man turns tyrant it is his own freedom that he destroys.

Before the second and third endings, the narrator — who the novelist wants the reader to believe is John Fowles himself — appears as a minor character sharing a railway compartment with Charles.