Burmese Days, (Paperback)

from eglinton

The Empire, the generations of British rule over vast territories and peoples, then as now perceived by those peoples as fundamentally iniquitous, remains largely unexamined in the consciousness, a...

from JBreedlove

Orwell is a great writer and he made the story bearable. EVen if you could see that Flory was going to lose out in the end it would have been nice to see him win one. Wonder what happened to these ...

from idiotgirl

Listened to this book while travelling in India over the past couple of weeks. A very interesting book written in 1930s about the British empire in larger India. Interesting to know that Orwell was...

from jonfaith

There is a great gnashing of teeth at Kipling and other apologists of a A Great Lie (that would be the benevolence of imperialism) in these pages: Niall Ferguson, consider yourself warned. The adro...

from john257hopper

An interesting and in many places rather distasteful picture of life in Burma under British rule. Most of the characters of all races and nationalities are rather unpleasant, with the exceptions of...