Burmese Days is the first novel by English writer George Orwell (pen name of Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950)), published in 1934.
Set in British Burma during the waning days of empire, when Burma was ruled from Delhi as part of British India, the novel serves as "a portrait of the dark side of the British Raj." At the centre of the novel is John Flory, "the lone and lacking indiv...