Burmese Days is the first novel by English writer George Orwell, published in 1934. Set in British Burma during the waning days of empire, when Burma was ruled from Delhi as part of British India, the novel serves as "a portrait of the dark side of the British Raj." At …
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Burmese Days is the first novel by English writer George Orwell, published in 1934. Set in British Burma during the waning days of empire, when Burma was ruled from Delhi as part of British India, the novel serves as "a portrait of the dark side of the British Raj." At the centre of the novel is John Flory, "the lone and lacking individual trapped within a bigger system that is undermining the better side of human nature." The novel describes "both indigenous corruption and imperial bigotry" in a society where, "after all, natives were natives—interesting, no doubt, but finally...an inferior people".Burmese Days was first published "further afield," in the United States, because of concerns that it might be potentially libelous; that the real provincial town of Katha had been described too realistically; and that some of its fictional characters were based too closely on identifiable people. A British edition, with altered names, appeared a year later. Nonetheless, Orwell's harsh portrayal of colonial society was felt by "some old Burma hands" to have "rather let the side down". In a letter from 1946, Orwell wrote, "I dare say it's unfair in some ways and inaccurate in some details, but much of it is simply reporting what I have seen".
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- 8414
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- 1072932
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Burmese Days
336 pages
English language
Published June 17, 2018 by Penguin Random House.
- ISBN:
- 978-1-78730-098-9Copied ISBN!
Burmese Days (Penguin Modern Classics)
320 pages
Published Nov. 29, 2001 by Penguin Books Ltd.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-14-118537-8Copied ISBN!
Burmese Days
Paperback, 376 pages
English language
Published Sept. 30, 2004 by 1st World Library.
- ISBN:
- 978-1-59540-430-5Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 61520501
Burmese Days (Classic, 20th-Century, Audio)
Audio cassette, 2 pages
English language
Published June 1, 1997 by Penguin Audio.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-14-086260-7Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 37026171
Burmese Days
Hardcover, 376 pages
English language
Published July 30, 2005 by 1st World Library.
- ISBN:
- 978-1-4218-0830-7Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 76826543
Burmese days
321 pages
English language
Published June 17, 1986 by Secker & Warburg.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-436-35024-5Copied ISBN!
Burmese Days
Perfect Paperback
English language
Published June 17, 2004 by 1st World Library.
- ISBN:
- 978-1-59540-480-0Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 76952237
Burmese days
272 pages
English language
Published June 17, 1967 by Penguin.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-14-000456-4Copied ISBN!
Burmese Days
287 pages
English language
Published July 19, 1974
- ISBN:
- 978-0-15-614850-4Copied ISBN!
Burmese Days
288 pages
English language
Published June 17, 1974 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-547-56403-6Copied ISBN!
Burmese days
300 pages
English language
Published June 17, 1989 by Penguin.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-14-018227-9Copied ISBN!
Burmese Days (7 Cassettes)
Audio Cassette
English language
Published Dec. 17, 1992 by Blackstone Audiobooks.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-7861-0295-2Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 27207533
Miandian sui yue
351 pages
Chinese language
Published June 17, 2017 by Lian jing chu ban shi ye gu fen you xian gong si.
- ISBN:
- 978-957-08-4999-8Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 1028639813
Burmese Days
352 pages
English language
Published June 17, 2021 by Pan Macmillan.
- ISBN:
- 978-1-5290-3268-0Copied ISBN!
Une histoire birmane
Mass Market Paperback, 357 pages
French language
Published Oct. 23, 2001 by 10-18.
- ISBN:
- 978-2-264-03036-8Copied ISBN!
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