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Why was "Burmese Days" not well received in the US?
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"Burmese Days" was not well received in the US because of the "ghastly vulgarity" of the third-rate characters. The only American review that Orwell himself saw, in the "New York Herald Tribune", by Margaret Carson Hubbard, was unfavourable: "The ghastly vulgarity of the third-rate characters who endure the heat and talk ad nausea of the glorious days of the British Raj, when fifteen lashes settled any native insolence, is such that they