num_pages: 608
description: Victor Crabbe is a well meaning, ineffectual English schoolteacher in the tropics, keen to teach the Malays what the West can do for them. In Time for the Tiger, the Enemy in the Blanket and Beds in the East, Burgess lays bare the absurdities, conflicts and confusions of the dog days of Empire.
language: English
title: Malayan Trilogy
titlecomplete: Malayan Trilogy
genres: Fiction, Historical, Asia, British Literature, Literature, Classics, Novels, Historical Fiction, 20th Century, Modern Classics
ratings_count: 837
series: The Long Day Wanes: A Malayan Trilogy
publisher: Vintage