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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- LibraryThing key:
- 8414
- Goodreads:
- 1072932
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Burmese days
English language
Published July 19, 2006
- ISBN:
- 978-0-14-196504-8Copied ISBN!
Los días de Birmania
321 pages
Spanish language
Published June 17, 2003 by Ediciones del Viento.
- ISBN:
- 978-84-933001-0-4Copied ISBN!
Une histoire birmane
Paperback, 357 pages
French language
Published Jan. 1, 1996 by Ivrea.
- ISBN:
- 978-2-85184-151-3Copied ISBN!
Burmese days
371 pages
English language
Published June 17, 1934 by Harper & brothers.
- OCLC Number:
- 1810828
Burmese Days
paperback, 256 pages
Published July 6, 2011 by Oxford City Press.
- ISBN:
- 978-1-84902-374-0Copied ISBN!
Burmese Days
Hardcover
English language
Published May 17, 1985 by Harcourt.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-15-114975-9Copied 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!
Burmese days
287 pages
English language
Published June 17, 1950 by Harcourt, Brace.
- OCLC Number:
- 1023416
Burmese days
263 pages
English language
Published June 17, 1962 by Time Inc..
- OCLC Number:
- 367492
Burmese days
263 pages
English language
Published June 17, 1962 by Time.
- OCLC Number:
- 16741868
Tage in Burma.
Paperback, 321 pages
German language
Published April 1, 2003 by Diogenes Verlag.
- ISBN:
- 978-3-257-20308-0Copied ISBN!
Burmese Days
paperback, 350 pages
Published April 13, 2020 by Platanus Publishing.
- ISBN:
- 978-625-7689-02-1Copied ISBN!
Une Histoire birmane
French language
Published July 19, 1984
- ISBN:
- 978-2-85184-151-3Copied ISBN!
Burmese Days
Audio Cassette
Published July 15, 1996 by Books on Tape, Inc..
- ISBN:
- 978-0-7366-3441-0Copied ISBN!
Burmese Days (7 Cassettes)
Hardcover
Published Dec. 17, 1992 by Blackstone Audiobooks.
- ISBN:
- 978-99934-1-388-2Copied ISBN!
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