Burmese Days"Beauty is meaningless until it is shared." "It is one of the tragedies of the half educated that they develop late, when they are already committed to some wrong way of life." "it is a corrupting thing to live one's real life in secret. One should live with the stream of life, not against it." George Orwell , Burmese Days Burmese Days is the first novel by English writer George Orwell, published in 1934. Set in British Burma during the waning days of