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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."
- George Orwell
- 1934
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).
George Orwell. 3.87. 28,532 ratings1,995 reviews. Set in the days of the Empire, with the British ruling in Burma, Orwell's book describes corruption and imperial bigotry. Flory, a white timber merchant, befriends Dr Veraswami, a black enthusiast for the Empire, whose downfall can only be prevented by membership at an all-white club.
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Burmese Days (Brasil: Dias na Birmânia / Portugal: Dias da Birmânia [1]) é um romance de George Orwell publicado em 1934. Este romance demonstra a verdadeira face do Império Britânico na Índia e consequentemente no mundo.
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.
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,
Honest and evocative, George Orwell’s first novel is an examination of the debasing effect of empire on occupied and occupier.Burmese Days focuses on a handful of Englishmen who meet at...
