George Orwell: Burmese Days (Penguin Modern Classics) [2014] mass_market CLASS Based on newly released files

Based on newly released files

From the author of the 2021 YA Book Prize winning Loveless

one of our very best writers brings the opulent

For every Frodo

but also against her own self-destructive impulses

George Orwell: Burmese Days (Penguin Modern Classics) [2014] mass_market CLASS Based on newly released filesBased on his experiences as a policeman in Burma, George Orwell's first novel presents a devastating picture of British colonial rule. It describes corruption and imperial bigotry in a society where, 'after all, natives were natives interesting, no doubt, but finally an inferior people'. When Flory, a white timber merchant, befriends Indian Dr Veraswami, he defies this orthodoxy. The doctor is in danger: U Po Kyin, a corrupt magistrate, is plotting