Sinossi
Questo testo è il primo romanzo scritto da Orwell. Protagonista è il trentacinquenne John Flory, mercante angloindiano di legname che, insofferente ai codici di comportamento dei sahib bianchi e attratto dalla cultura orientale, si muove a cavallo tra due mondi senza riuscire a trovare una propria collocazione e, privo della forza morale necessaria per ribellarsi alla comunità bianca, rimane frustrato dagli inevitabili compromessi.
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- Pagine: 331
- Data di uscita: 22-05-2017
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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 Leggi tutto
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