I somehow managed to board the wrong plane – and annoy my librarian
I’ve lost my borrowed copy of George Orwell’s Burmese Days. But the story is so fantastical the librarian will be ...
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Burma Sahib: How George Orwell, Author Of Animal Farm, Struggled With Racism, Colonialism, & His Indian Roots
Fictionalizing the life of young George Orwell — just leaving his ... a backwater that becomes the setting for Burmese Days, ...
The New Yorker1y
The Spare Precision of George Orwell’s “Animal Farm”
Orwell, before the war ... There is a novel of his called “Burmese Days,” a title deceptively suggestive of reminiscences by a retired official, which is certainly one of the few first ...
PBS7y
Orwell’s Century
John Rodden: H.G. Welles called George Orwell that Trotskyist with big feet ... So that some people will point to his first novel, Burmese Days, and say, “there’s the example of the anti ...
WAtoday3d
How I boarded the wrong plane and had to do a walk of shame
No big deal. I’m more terrified at the prospect of explaining to the librarian upon my return home that I’ve lost my borrowed copy of George Orwell’s Burmese Days. I can picture her now ...
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George Orwell Gets His Own £2 Coin Featuring an All-Seeing Eye
“We will never know how George Orwell would feel about being commemorated ... He drew on these experiences for his first novel, Burmese Days (1934). About a decade later, Orwell made a name ...
The Age3d
I somehow managed to board the wrong plane – and annoy my librarian
No big deal. I’m more terrified at the prospect of explaining to the librarian upon my return home that I’ve lost my borrowed copy of George Orwell’s Burmese Days. I can picture her now ...