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Burmese Days

Burmese Days is the first novel and second book 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…

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Author
George Orwell
Genre
Novel
Publication date
25 October 1934
Publisher
Harper & Brothers (US) Victor Gollancz (UK)
Followed by
A Clergyman's Daughter
Language
English

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related to Characters · 83
Burmese Days → According, After, After Elizabeth, After Flory, All, An, An Indian, And, As, Because, Before, Bohemian, Both, British, Britons, Buddhist, Burma, Burmese, Christian, Deputy Commissioner
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related to Colonialism · 21
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Burmese Days → American, Boston Evening Transcript, Britain, British Raj, Cyril Connolly, Harpers, In February, Margaret Carson Hubbard, New Statesman, New York Herald Tribune, October, On, Orwell, The, US
related to Racism · 12
Burmese Days → Burma, Burmese, Ellis, European, Europeans, Flory, In, Indians, Keck, Racism, The, The European
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Burmese Days → Anglo-Burmese, British IndiaDiscusses, Burma, Burmese DaysBurmese Days, Canada, Discusses, English, Faded Page, Orwell's Burma, The Literary EncyclopediaAnother, TimeOnline
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Burmese Days → admirable novel, far more pessimistic book than A Passage to India, first novel and second book by English writer George Orwell
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Burmese Days → A Clergyman's Daughter
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Burmese Days → Novel

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Burmese DaysFollowed byA Clergyman's Daughter1.00infobox
Burmese DaysGenreNovel1.00infobox
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Burmese DaysLanguageEnglish1.00infobox
Burmese DaysMedia typePrint (hardback & paperback)1.00infobox
Burmese DaysPages3001.00infobox
Burmese DaysPreceded byDown and Out in Paris and London1.00infobox
Burmese DaysPublication date25 October 19341.00infobox
Burmese DaysPublication placeUnited Kingdom1.00infobox
Burmese DaysPublisherHarper & Brothers (US) Victor Gollancz (UK)1.00infobox
Burmese Daysis afirst novel and second book by English writer George Orwell0.90text
Burmese Daysis afar more pessimistic book than A Passage to India0.90text
Burmese Daysis aadmirable novel0.90text

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