For the first time in one hardcover volume&mdash;three classic novels by the author of <i>Nineteen Eighty- Four </i>and <i>Animal Farm.<br><br></i>The lushly descriptive and tragic <i>Burmese Days,</i> a devastating indictment of British colonial rule, is based on Orwell&rsquo;s own experience while serving in the Indian Imperial Police. His beloved satirical classic, <i>Keep the Aspidistra Flying, </i>features a young idealist whose attempt to rebel against middle-class respectability&mdash;by working in a bookshop and trying to be a writer&mdash;goes terribly and comically awry. The hero of <i>Coming Up for Air</i> tries to escape the bleakness of suburbia by returning to the idyllic rural village of his childhood&mdash;only to find that the simpler England he remembers so nostalgically is gone forever.<br><br>These three novels share Orwell&rsquo;s unsparing vision of the dark side of modern capitalist society in combination with his comic brilliance and his unerring compassion for humanity.