Burmese Days
8 hrs. 57 min.
Language
Russian
Author
George Orwell
Author
George Orwell
Narrator
Alexander Klyukvin
Narrator
Alexander Klyukvin
Description
The British bachelor John Flory leads an easy, idle life in colonial India. Like the rest of the “upper class,” he spends his time playing tennis, endless drunkenness, and entertaining countless women. Meeting a young Englishwoman and befriending the Indian doctor Veraswamy makes him see everything around him in an entirely different light.
Chronologically, “Burmese Days” is Orwell’s first novel. After four years of service in colonial Burma as an officer in the Imperial Police, he wrote this autobiographical book, capturing all the experience of those difficult years—and serving later as the foundation for his original, exceptionally independent worldview.
Also don’t miss the earlier Orwell audiobooks: “The Road to Wigan Pier,” “Animal Farm,” “1984,” “Keep the Aspidistra Flying!,” “Coming Up for Air,” “Homage to Catalonia,” “The Lion and the Unicorn,” “Down and Out in Paris and London,” “A Scrapbook,” “England Your England,” “Reflections on the Spanish Civil War.”
Chronologically, “Burmese Days” is Orwell’s first novel. After four years of service in colonial Burma as an officer in the Imperial Police, he wrote this autobiographical book, capturing all the experience of those difficult years—and serving later as the foundation for his original, exceptionally independent worldview.
Also don’t miss the earlier Orwell audiobooks: “The Road to Wigan Pier,” “Animal Farm,” “1984,” “Keep the Aspidistra Flying!,” “Coming Up for Air,” “Homage to Catalonia,” “The Lion and the Unicorn,” “Down and Out in Paris and London,” “A Scrapbook,” “England Your England,” “Reflections on the Spanish Civil War.”
