![]() ![]() ![]() Without membership and the accompanying prestige that would protect the doctor, the condemning and ill-founded attack by a bitter magistrate might bring an end to everything he has accomplished. Veraswami, for admittance into the whites-only club. However, he lacks the fortitude to stand up for his Indian friend, Dr. One of the men, James Flory, a timber merchant, has grown soft, clearly comprehending the futility of England’s rule. Burmese Days focuses on a handful of Englishmen who meet at the European Club to drink whisky and to alleviate the acute and unspoken loneliness of life in 1920s Burma-where Orwell himself served as an imperial policeman-during the waning days of British imperialism. ” Honest and evocative, George Orwell’s first novel is an examination of the debasing effect of empire on occupied and occupier. ![]()
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