Burmese Days
$18.09
- Hardcover
352 pages
- Release Date
12 January 2021
Summary
In Burmese Days, George Orwell brilliantly evokes the sounds and sights of Burma and reveals, in unflinching detail, the dark side of colonial rule.
Part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. This edition features an introduction by journalist and writer, David Eimer.
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Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781529032680 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1529032687 |
| Author: | George Orwell, David Eimer |
| Publisher: | Pan Macmillan |
| Imprint: | Macmillan Collector's Library |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 352 |
| Release Date: | 12 January 2021 |
| Weight: | 200g |
| Dimensions: | 20mm x 101mm x 158mm |
| Series: | Macmillan Collector's Library |
| Audience Age: | 18 |
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Critics Review
A scathing portrait of the imperious attitudes of the British.
A scathing portrait of the imperious attitudes of the British. * New York Times *
Of all the fictions about colonial rule – A Passage to India, The Raj Quartet, Out of Africa – Burmese Days is the angriest, rawest, most scathing and least sentimental. * The Times *
A scathing indictment of imperialism, exposing the dark face of British rule in the subcontinent. * Hindu *
Orwell draws on his own experience and what’s so striking is how the uncomfortable echoes of that time still reverberate today among some expatriate circles in the region … A vaguely Austen feel permeates the romantic subplot; the ending is devastating. * Travelfish *
Orwell can write … in Burmese Days he has written a malodorous, realistic novel of the white man in the east, as he really is. * Kirkus Reviews *
George Orwell
Eric Arthur Blair (George Orwell) was born in 1903 in India where his father was a civil servant. After studying at Eton, he served with the Indian Imperial Police in Burma for several years which inspired his first novel, Burmese Days. After two years in Paris, he returned to England to work as a teacher and then in a bookshop. In 1936 he travelled to Spain to fight for the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War, where he was badly wounded. During the Second World War he worked for the BBC. A prolific journalist and essayist, Orwell wrote some of the most influential books in English literature, including the dystopian Nineteen Eighty-Four and his political allegory Animal Farm. He died from tuberculosis in 1950.
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