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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 ...
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Burmese Days. Published in the USA in 1934 and the UK in 1935, Burmese Days was George Orwell’s first novel. An examination of the debasing effect of empire on occupied and occupier, the novel follows John Flory, a timber-merchant in 1920s Burma (where Orwell himself served as an imperial policeman). Disillusioned by imperial life at the ...
Burmese Days is a novel by British writer George Orwell. It was first published in the United Kingdom in 1934. It is a tale from the waning days of British colonialism, when Burma was ruled from Delhi as a part of British India. Burmese Days is set in 1920's imperial Burma, in the fictional district of Kyauktada, based on Kathar (formerly ...
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Burmese Days Summary. U Po Kyin, an extremely powerful magistrate in Kyauktada, Upper Burma, plots and schemes to take down Dr. Veraswami, an upstanding Burmese who affronts U Po Kyin through his rectitude and geniality. Flory, a timber merchant, has been in Burma for several years now. He meets with the handful of other Europeans in the Club ...
George Orwell > Burmese Days > Chapter 1. Burmese Days. Chapter 1. U Po Kyin, Sub-divisional Magistrate of Kyauktada, in Upper Burma, was sitting in his veranda. It was only half past eight, but the. month was April, and there was a closeness in the air, a threat of. the long, stifling midday hours. Occasional faint breaths of wind,
Burmese Days, however, is something very different. It is a portrait of the dark side of the Raj, chronicling sordid and shameful episodes of empire life. Few of the characters in Burmese Days have any redeemable features; both British and Burmese alike are tarnished by the colonial system in which they live.
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Burmese Days, written by George Orwell and published in 1934, is a critique of British imperialism and its effects on individuals and cultures.Set in the fictional district of Kyauktada in Upper Burma, at that time part of the British Raj, the novel tells the story of Flory, a 35-year-old English timber merchant who has spent his adult life in Burma.
