Coming Up For Air

By (author) Orwell, George
Description
George Orwell is one of Britain''s most popular authors and his books 1984 and Animal Farm are common features in school curricula.
Biographical note
George Orwell is one of England''s most famous writers and social commentators. Among his works are the classic political satire Animal Farm and the dystopian nightmare vision Nineteen Eighty-Four. Orwell was also a prolific essayist, and it is for these works that he was perhaps best known during his lifetime.
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Coming Up For Air provides a stark insight into interwar Britain, told from the perspective of a portly dissatisfied salesman. Nostalgic for his rural childhood, George Bowling returns to the village of his youth, only to find it drastically altered.
Biographical note
George Orwell is one of England''s most famous writers and social commentators. Among his works are the classic political satire Animal Farm and the dystopian nightmare vision Nineteen Eighty-Four. Orwell was also a prolific essayist, and it is for these works that he was perhaps best known during his lifetime.