

Burmese Days
A Novel
Author: George Orwell
Narrator: Frederick Davidson
Unabridged: 10 hr 17 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Published: 12/01/1998
Author: George Orwell
Narrator: Frederick Davidson
Unabridged: 10 hr 17 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Published: 12/01/1998
George Orwell (1903–1950) was an acclaimed English novelist, essayist, journalist, and literary critic best known for his works of social criticism and opposition to totalitarianism. The London Times named him the second-greatest British writer since 1945.
David Case (a.k.a. Frederick Davidson) (1932–2005) was born in London and trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. He performed in BBC radio plays before coming to America in 1976. The narrator of more than eight hundred audiobooks, he garnered numerous Earphones Awards and a Grammy nomination for his readings. He was named a Golden Voice by AudioFile magazine in 1997.
In the 1920's an obscure young Englishman named John Flory, obviously modeled after George Orwell himself, goes to colonial Burma to make his fortune, "The Road to Mandalay" this is not. The writer had been a policeman there also for five years. Flory becomes a timber merchant, in the north of the c......more
“Envy is a horrible thing. It is unlike all other kinds of suffering in that there is no disguising it, no elevating it into tragedy. It is more than merely painful, it is disgusting.” Not as polished as some of his later works, George Orwell's Burmese Days still packs a punch. Set during colonial ru......more
“A well-integrated, fast-moving story of what life was like in a remote backcountry Asiatic station.” Chicago Tribune
“An absorbing story…The character of Lieutenant Verrall (who despised the club members from his own superior heaven of army and blue blood) is a masterpiece of acid delineation.” New York Herald Tribune
“Can take an honorable place beside A Passage to India.” Saturday Review
“Orwell is a master at telling stories with bitter, satiric tone, and these adapt well to audio. Frederick Davidson reads with competence and just the right amount of affectation.” Library Journal