It is a crisp, fierce, and almost boisterous attack on the Anglo-Indian.

“.can take an honorable place beside A Passage to India.” (The Saturday Review) And he knows of what he writes.' (The New York Times) Orwell has made his people and his background vividly real. 'This is a superior novel, not less so because it tells an absorbing story. The following are some of the reviews of the book when it was published: The Gollancz edition is the First British with the character’s names changed to avoid libel cases.

Orwell was able to get the book published in America in 1934 by Harper & Brothers. The novel was initially rejected by British publishers due to concerns that his caustic critique of colonialism might be considered libelous to those portrayed. The book recounts Orwell’s five years' service as a police officer in the Indian Imperial Police in Burma 1922–1927 and is an honest and evocative novel based on life in upper Burma when Britain's rule was still unchallenged. The original cloth spine is bound in at the rear of the book.īook Details: This is is the first British edition of George Orwell’s critically acclaimed first novel “Burmese Days' published by Victor Gollancz Ltd.

First British Edition, Published by Victor Gollancz Ltd., London, 1935īinding Details: Fine contemporary full morocco leather binding with raised bands to the spine with gold gilt ruling, titles, and decorative central motifs There is gold gilt ruling to the borders of the front and rear covers, marbled endpapers, hand-sewn silk endbands, and the top page edges are gold gilted.

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