Burmese Days
$23.64
- Paperback
352 pages
- Release Date
4 June 2009
Summary
Set in the days of the Empire, with the British ruling in Burma, Burmese Days describes both indigenous corruption and Imperial bigotry, when ‘after all, natives were natives - interesting, no doubt, but finally only a “subject” people, an inferior people with black faces’.
Against the prevailing orthodoxy, Flory, a white timber merchant, befriends Dr Veraswami, a black enthusiast for Empire. The doctor needs help. U Po Kyin, Sub-divisional Magistrate of Kyauktada, is plottin…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141185378 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0141185376 |
| Author: | George Orwell, Emma Larkin |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 352 |
| Release Date: | 4 June 2009 |
| Weight: | 264g |
| Dimensions: | 16mm x 128mm x 197mm |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
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George Orwell
Eric Arthur Blair (1903-1950), better known by his pen-name, George Orwell, was born in India, where his father worked for the Civil Service. An author and journalist, Orwell was one of the most prominent and influential figures in twentieth-century literature. His unique political allegory Animal Farm was published in 1945, and it was this novel, together with the dystopia of Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), which brought him world-wide fame. His novels and non-fiction include Burmese Days, Down and Out in Paris and London, The Road to Wigan Pier and Homage to Catalonia.
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