A Clergyman's Daughter
€11.74
Product Information
| ISBN | 9781847499097 |
|---|---|
| Authors | George Orwell |
| Publisher | Alma Books Ltd |
| Format | Paperback |
| Number of pages | 256 |
| Weight (kg) | 0.234 |
| Publishing Date | 25/10/2023 |
| Price (excl. tax) | €11.08 |
| Tax | €0.66 |
| Price (incl. tax) | €11.74 |
| Availability | 2 units in external warehouse |
Product Description
Twenty-eight-year-old Dorothy Hare leads a life of drudgery and self-abnegation in the house of her father, the rector of Knype Hill, helping him stave off his creditors and making costumes for fund-raising events. When, after being invited to dinner by Mr Warburton, a local atheist and libertine, she is glimpsed in his arms by the village gossip, Mrs Semprill, Dorothy suffers a breakdown and, struck by amnesia, embarks on journey that will see her join a group of vagrants, pick hops in the fields of Kent, stay in a hotel for “working girls” and sleep rough on the streets of London.
Perhaps the most experimental among his writings, A Clergyman’s Daughter, first published in 1935, is Orwell’s second work of fiction – and one that, in its depiction of a protagonist who rebels against and is ultimately vanquished by the society that oppresses her, is a clear prefiguration of later novels such as Keep the Aspidistra Flying and Nineteen Eighty-Four.