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Burmese days
Introduction
Burmese days is the first novel by English writer George Orwell, published in 1934.
Setting
Set in British Burma during the waning days of the Empire, when Burma was ruled from Delhi as part of British Raj.
Main Character
At the centre of the novel is John Flory, the lone and lacking individual trapped within a bigger systime that undermining the better side of human nature.
Themes
The novel describes both indigenous corruption and imperial bigotry in a society where, after all, natives were natives.
