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 ofNineteen Eighty- FourandAnimal Farm. The lushly descriptive and tragicBurmese Days,a devastating indictment of British colonial rule, is based on Orwellrs"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-goes terribly and comically awry. The hero ofComing Up for Airtries 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. These three novels share Orwellrs"s unsparing vision of the dark side of modern capitalist society in combination with his comic brilliance and his unerring compassion for humanity.

George Orwell was born in 1903 and died in 1950.

John Carey is Emeritus Professor of English Literature at Oxford and a Fellow of the British Academy.