Set in the days of the Empire with the British ruling in Burma, the book describes the corruption, bigotry and racism of colonial society and the effects it has on colonialists and the local population alike. Orwell's parents were born in Burma (now Myanmar) and he spent five years as a member of the British Colonial Police in the country. Burmese Days, Orwell’s first novel, was highly influenced by his five year service in the India Imperial Police in Burma. 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. George Orwell was born Eric Arthur Blair in 1903 in Motihari in Bengal, India and later studied at Eton for four years. George Orwell (Real name: Eric Blair) is most famous for his dystopian and anti-totalitarianism novels Animal Farm and 1984, but he also wrote an earlier novel about colonialism: Burmese Days.

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. Classic Editions sells non-fiction leather bound books for your private collection, including Burmese Days by George Orwell, 1935, 1st British Edition. 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. Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 21 January 1950), better known by his pen name George Orwell, was an English novelist, essayist, journalist, and critic.

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