Burmese Days, Keep the Aspidistra Flying, Coming Up for Air: Introduction by John Carey

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—go...