Burmese Days

by George Orwell

Overview

BURMESE DAYS is George Orwell's distillation of six years with the Indian Imperial Police. It is an honest and evocative novel based on life in upper Burma in the 1920s when Britain's rule was still unchallenged.

Flory, a middle-aged Englishman, has grown soft in the foreign service. He is not ready for love, though it takes him when he meets Elizabeth Lackerstein. She is a beautiful English girl, recently orphaned, and her need for a protector undoes him.

"This is a superior novel, not less so because it tells an absorbing story. Orwell has made his people and his background vividly real. And he knows of what he writes." (The New York Times)

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780063344365
Publisher:	HarperCollins
Publication date:	03/26/2024
Pages:	288
Sales rank:	1,072,290
Product dimensions:	5.20(w) x 7.90(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

George Orwell (1903–1950), the pen name of Eric Arthur Blair, was an English novelist, essayist, and critic. He was born in India and educated at Eton. After service with the Indian Imperial Police in Burma, he returned to Europe to earn his living by writing. 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 1984 (1949), which brought him worldwide fame. 

Table of Contents

Introduction
Note on the Text
Select Bibliography
Chronology
Burmese Days
Explanatory Notes

Editorial Reviews

This is a superior novel, not less so because it tells an absorbing story. Orwell has made his people and his background vividly real. And he knows of what he writes." — New York Times

“A well integrated, fast moving story.” — Chicago Tribune

From the Publisher

...can take an honorable place beside A Passage to India. -- The Saturday Review

Edmund Fuller