Burmese Days

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George Orwell: Burmese Days (1974, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company)

288 pages

English language

Published June 17, 1974 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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978-0-547-56403-6
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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 …

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  • British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author)