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PENGUIN T W E N T I E T H - C E N T U R Y CLASSICS
GEORGE ORWELL
Burmese Days
'I recommend it to anyone who enjoys a spate of efficient indignation, graphic description, excellent narrative, excitement, and irony tempered with vitriol' — Cyril Connolly
Set in the days of Empire, with the British ruUng in Burma, Burmese Days describes both indigenous corruption and Imperial bigotry, when 'after all, natives were natives - interesting, no doubt, but finally only a "subject" people, an inferior people with black faces'.
Against the prevailing orthodoxy, Flory, a white timber merchant, befriends Dr Veraswami, a black enthusiast for Empire. The doctor needs help. U Po Kyin, Sub-divisional Magistrate of Kyauktada, is plotting his downfall. The only thing that can save him is European patronage: membership of the hitherto all-white Club.
While Flory prevaricates, beautiful Elizabeth Lackersteen arrives in Upper Burma from Paris. At last, after years of'solitary hell', romance and...
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Fülszöveg
PENGUIN T W E N T I E T H - C E N T U R Y CLASSICS
GEORGE ORWELL
Burmese Days
'I recommend it to anyone who enjoys a spate of efficient indignation, graphic description, excellent narrative, excitement, and irony tempered with vitriol' — Cyril Connolly
Set in the days of Empire, with the British ruUng in Burma, Burmese Days describes both indigenous corruption and Imperial bigotry, when 'after all, natives were natives - interesting, no doubt, but finally only a "subject" people, an inferior people with black faces'.
Against the prevailing orthodoxy, Flory, a white timber merchant, befriends Dr Veraswami, a black enthusiast for Empire. The doctor needs help. U Po Kyin, Sub-divisional Magistrate of Kyauktada, is plotting his downfall. The only thing that can save him is European patronage: membership of the hitherto all-white Club.
While Flory prevaricates, beautiful Elizabeth Lackersteen arrives in Upper Burma from Paris. At last, after years of'solitary hell', romance and marriage appear to offer Flory an escape fi-om the 'lie' of the 'pukka sahib pose'.
'Mr Orwell's indignant and unsparing realism is a sound tonic for us! It is convincing realism; and it is as illuminating as it is distressing' -John Cowper Powys
THE AUTHORITATIVE TEXT
Cover photograph courtesy of the India Office Library, London
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