作为奥威尔的首部小说，它呈现了极为真实的殖民地生活：白人腐败堕落，土著浑浑噩噩，但作为白人的主人公弗洛里，却在在身份认同危机中苦苦挣扎，一方面同情东方民族，憎恨帝国主义，渴望找到一位和他一起分享缅甸生活的朋友，另一方面“明知道自己有可能成为一个正直的人”的他害怕“救赎了自己的灵魂却失掉了整个世界”，所以只能“眼睁睁地看着自己在这丢脸、可怕的徒劳中，荒废生命、腐败堕落”。

Set in the days of the Empire, with the British ruling in Burma, "Burmese Days" describes both indigenous corruption and Imperial bigotry, when 'after all, natives were natives - interesting, no doubt, but finally only a 'subject' people, an inferior people with black faces'. Against the prevailing orthodoxy, Flory, a white timber merchant, befriends Dr Veraswami, a black enthusiast for Empire. The doctor needs help. U Po Kyin, Sub-divisional Magistrate of Kyauktada, is plotting his downfall. The only thing that can save him is European patronage: membership of the hitherto all-white Club. While Flory prevaricates, beautiful Elizabeth Lackersteen arrives in Upper Burma from Paris. At last, after years of 'solitary hell', romance and marriage appear to offer Flory an escape from the 'lie' of the 'pukka sahib pose'.

这部生动真实、引人回味的小说讲述了一帮英国人的故事。在大英殖民统治日薄西山之际的缅甸，他们相聚在欧洲人俱乐部，整日饮酒，以排遣内心那无法言说的寂寞。其中有一位约翰·弗洛里，他内心柔弱，深知英国统治毫无意义可言，可又缺乏足够的坚毅，不敢为自己的印度朋友维拉斯瓦米医生争取进入白人俱乐部的资格。而没有会员资格以及由此带来的声誉保护自己，医生所拥有的一切，将会毁于一名地方治安官无耻捏造的诽谤之辞。 弗洛里无意中爱上一个新来的英国女孩儿，令事态更趋复杂。他必须有勇气作出正确的举动，不止为了朋友，也为了自己的良心。

The year 1984 has come and gone, but George Orwell's prophetic, nightmarish vision in 1949 of the world we were becoming is timelier than ever. 1984 ...more [close] The year 1984 has come and gone, but George Orwell's prophetic, nightmarish vision in 1949 of the world we were becoming is timelier than ever. 1984 is still the great modern classic of "negative utopia"--a startlingly original and haunting novel that creates an imaginary world that is completely convincing, from the first sentence to the last four words. No one can deny the novel's hold on the imaginations of the whole generations, or the power of its admonitions--a power that seem to grow, not lessen, with the passage of time.