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BURMESE DAYS - GEORGE ORWELL TASCHENBUCH

In the Burmese provincial town of Kyauktada  the world-weary John Flory - a thirty-something
English teak dealer - leads a life of quiet disillusionment  hardly mixing with the natives or
the expat community  and deriving some comfort only from his conversations with an Indian
friend  Doctor Veraswami  and the attentions of his local mistress. His prospects seem to
improve when he meets the orphaned niece of a timber merchant  Elizabeth Lackersteen  who
appears to reciprocate his feelings of love - but the arrival on the scene of another suitor 
the boorish police officer Verrall  and the scheming of a disgruntled local magistrate threaten
to shatter Flory's dreams and put him on a path to tragedy. Based on the author's own
experiences in Burma as a young officer in the Indian Imperial Police  Burmese Days - here
presented in the version published in Britain in 1944  which follows the text of its first
American edition - is George Orwell's debut novel  invaluable both as a faithful description of
life in Burma during the twilight of the British Raj and as an exposé of the failings of
colonial rule.

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