Description
Title: Burmese Days
Author: ORWELL GEORGE
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 02/01/2014
Imprint: PENGUIN CLASSIC
Price: $23.00
Publishing status: Active
Orwell’s first novel, a devastating account of colonial rule in Burma, in a stunning new cover look for his great works
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 plotting his downfall. The only thing that can save him is European patronage- membership of the hitherto all-white Club. While Flory prevaricates, beautiful Elizabeth Lackersteen arrives in Upper Burma from Paris. At last, after years of ‘solitary hell’, romance and marriage appear to offer Flory an escape from the ‘lie’ of the ‘pukka sahib pose’.
Series: Penguin Modern Classics
ISBN: 9780141395432
Weight: 178g
Dimension: 181mm X 111mm
Pages: 304
Edition: 01