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Burmese Days
George Orwell - -
Burmese Days is the first novel by English writer George Orwell, published in 1934. Set in British Burma during the waning days of Empire, when Burma was ruled from Delhi as part of British India, it is ”a portrait of the dark side of the British Raj.” At the centre of the novel is John Flory, ”the lone and lacking individual trapped within a bigger ...
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Daniel Curzon - -
"Tell the truth till it hurts." - Daniel Curzon
"This lucid and chatty book is perceptive, wry, and penetrating to the last drop of bile." - Robert Patrick
"Angry, bitter, with chips on both shoulders, Daniel Curzon is also ferociously honest and very funny." - Ian Young
"He has been everywhere, he has met everyone, and now that he has your attention, ...
Madame de Treymes
Edith Wharton - -
"Madame de Treymes exhibits Wharton's subtle realism and is one of her works depicting Americans living in France. It tells of Fanny de Malrive, née Frisbee, a once free-spirited New Yorker now married to a French marquis. Like several of Wharton's female protagonists, she is trapped within an unhappy marriage as well as being constricted by the ...
Buddenbrooks (Wisehouse Classics Edition)
Thomas Mann - -
Buddenbrooks is a 1901 novel by Thomas Mann, chronicling the decline of a wealthy north German merchant family over the course of four generations, incidentally portraying the manner of life and mores of the Hanseatic bourgeoisie in the years from 1835 to 1877. Mann drew deeply from the history of his own family, the Mann family ...
