Burmese Days/ Keep the Aspidistra Flying/ Coming Up for Air
Book (italiano):
For the first time in one hardcover volume—three classic novels by the author of <i>Nineteen Eighty- Four </i>and <i>Animal Farm.<br><br></i>The lushly descriptive and tragic <i>Burmese Days,</i> 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, <i>Keep the Aspidistra Flying, </i>features a young idealist whose attempt to rebel against middle-class respectability—by working in a bookshop and trying to be a writer—goes terribly and comically awry. The hero of <i>Coming Up for Air</i> tries to escape the bleakness of suburbia by returning to the idyllic rural village of his childhood—only to find that the simpler England he remembers so nostalgically is gone forever.<br><br>These three novels share Orwell’s unsparing vision of the dark side of modern capitalist society in combination with his comic brilliance and his unerring compassion for humanity.
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