Coming Up for Air: Penguin Modern Classics
Autor George Orwellen Limba Engleză Paperback – 24 ian 2001
George Bowling, forty-five, mortgaged, married with children, is an insurance salesman with an expanding waistline, a new set of false teeth - and a desperate desire to escape his dreary life. He fears modern times - since, in 1939, the Second World War is imminent - foreseeing food queues, soldiers, secret police and tyranny. So he decides to escape to the world of his childhood, to the village he remembers as a rural haven of peace and tranquillity. But his return journey to Lower Binfield may bring only a more complete disillusionment ...
'Very funny, as well as invigoratingly realistic ...Nineteen Eighty-Fouris here in embryo. So isAnimal Farm... not many novels carry the seeds of two classics as well as being richly readable themselves'
John Carey,Sunday Times
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780141185699
ISBN-10: 0141185694
Pagini: 288
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.21 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin Classics
Seria Penguin Modern Classics
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0141185694
Pagini: 288
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.21 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin Classics
Seria Penguin Modern Classics
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
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Notă biografică
Eric
Arthur
Blair
(1903-1950),
better
known
by
his
pen-name,
George
Orwell,
was
born
in
India,
where
his
father
worked
for
the
Civil
Service.
An
author
and
journalist,
Orwell
was
one
of
the
most
prominent
and
influential
figures
in
twentieth-century
literature.
His
unique
political
allegoryAnimal
Farmwas
published
in
1945,
and
it
was
this
novel,
together
with
the
dystopia
ofNineteen
Eighty-Four(1949),
which
brought
him
world-wide
fame.
His
novels
and
non-fiction
includeBurmese
Days,
Down
and
Out
in
Paris
and
London,
The
Road
to
Wigan
PierandHomage
to
Catalonia.
Caracteristici
A perfect companion to to Animal Farm, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Keep the Aspidistra Flying, Homage to Catalonia and Burmese Days
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Before the war! How long shall we go on saying that, I wonder? How long before the answer will be 'Which war?'The approach of the Second World War finds suburban insurance agent George Bowling in a reflective mood. As he thinks back to the sedate Oxfordshire village of his Edwardian boyhood, he contemplates regretfully what has happened to England since then, from the First World War, in which he served, to the seemingly inescapable money-grubbing and mechanization of everyday life in modern London. A lucky windfall allows Bowling to make a secret return to his idyllic birthplace: a fortifying respite, he hopes, from the struggles of life in a modern city on the verge of war. But is there really any going back?Published in 1939, Coming Up for Air is the most accomplished of Orwell's early realist novels, casting light on the development of Orwell's distinctive thinking as a cultural critic. The novel explores many of the themes Orwell later reprised in 1984: nostalgia, memory, and disillusionment in the face of modernity's ills, including industrialisation, capitalist exploitation, and endless war.
Before the war! How long shall we go on saying that, I wonder? How long before the answer will be 'Which war?'The approach of the Second World War finds suburban insurance agent George Bowling in a reflective mood. As he thinks back to the sedate Oxfordshire village of his Edwardian boyhood, he contemplates regretfully what has happened to England since then, from the First World War, in which he served, to the seemingly inescapable money-grubbing and mechanization of everyday life in modern London. A lucky windfall allows Bowling to make a secret return to his idyllic birthplace: a fortifying respite, he hopes, from the struggles of life in a modern city on the verge of war. But is there really any going back?Published in 1939, Coming Up for Air is the most accomplished of Orwell's early realist novels, casting light on the development of Orwell's distinctive thinking as a cultural critic. The novel explores many of the themes Orwell later reprised in 1984: nostalgia, memory, and disillusionment in the face of modernity's ills, including industrialisation, capitalist exploitation, and endless war.