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Burmese Days by George. Orwell (2024, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherHarperCollins

ISBN-10006334436X

ISBN-139780063344365

eBay Product ID (ePID)28060897262

Product Key Features

Book TitleBurmese Days

Number of Pages288 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2024

TopicClassics, Literary

GenreFiction

AuthorGeorge. Orwell

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.7 in

Item Weight7.9 Oz

Item Length8 in

Item Width5.3 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

Reviews"This is a superior novel, not less so because it tells an absorbing story. Orwell has made his people and his background vividly real. And he knows of what he writes." -- New York Times "A well integrated, fast moving story." -- Chicago Tribune

SynopsisFrom one of the world's most influential writers, an evocative, morally sharp first novel that is an examination of the debasing effect of empire on occupied and occupier. Burmese Days focuses on a handful of Englishmen who meet at the European Club to drink whisky and to alleviate the acute and unspoken loneliness of life in 1920s Burma--where Orwell himself served as a policeman--during the waning days of British imperialism. One of the men, James Flory, a timber merchant, has grown soft, clearly comprehending the futility of England's rule. However, he lacks the fortitude to stand up for his Indian friend, Dr. Veraswami, for admittance into the whites-only club. Without membership and the accompanying prestige that would protect the doctor, the condemning and ill-founded attack by a bitter magistrate might bring an end to everything he has accomplished. Complicating matters, Flory falls unexpectedly in love with a newly arrived English girl, Elizabeth Lackersteen. Can he find the strength to do right not only by his friend, but also by his conscience Orwell moves between grand-scale political scheming and intimate social settings, mining his own colonial Indian roots and his personal experience seeing the "dirty work of Empire at close quarters" to create this searing work of historical fiction.

LC Classification NumberPR6029.R8B8 2024