Burmese Days (Annotated)

George Orwell's Burmese Days is a corrosive study of imperial decay, set in the fictional district of Kyauktada in British-ruled Burma. Through the disillusioned timber merchant John Flory, the novel exposes racism, moral cowardice, and the hollow rituals of colonial society. Its prose combines social realism with satirical precision, placing it within the tradition of anti-imperial fiction while ...