Burmese Days, Keep the Aspidistra Flying, Coming Up for Air: Introduction by John Carey (Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics) - Hardcover

Orwell, George

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0307595048 ISBN 13: 9780307595041

Publisher: Everyman's Library, 2011

Synopsis

For the first time in one hardcover volume--three classic novels by the author of Nineteen Eighty- Four and Animal Farm.

The lushly descriptive and tragic Burmese Days, a devastating indictment of British colonial rule, is based on Orwell's own experience while serving in the Indian Imperial Police. His beloved satirical classic, Keep the Aspidistra Flying, features a young idealist whose attempt to rebel against middle-class respectability--by working in a bookshop and trying to be a writer--goes terribly and comically awry. The hero of Coming Up for Air tries to escape the bleakness of suburbia by returning to the idyllic rural village of his childhood--only to find that the simpler England he remembers so nostalgically is gone forever.

These three novels share Orwell's unsparing vision of the dark side of modern capitalist society in combination with his comic brilliance and his unerring compassion for humanity.

About this title

Book Description:

Volume 2 from The Complete Works of George Orwell, available for the first time.

From the Back Cover:

In this caustic, fast-paced novel about the waning days of British imperialism, George Orwell draws on his years of experience in India, the country of his birth. The story focuses on a handful of Englishmen living in a small settlement in Upper Burma. They congregate in the European Club, drinking whiskey and arguing over an impending order to admit a token Asian.

About this edition

• Publisher: Everyman's Library
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0307595048
• ISBN 13: 9780307595041
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 712