A new edition of Orwell's elegiac fourth novel introduced and annotated by his biographer D.J. Taylor
First published in 1939 and dominated by the shadow of the Second World War Coming up for Air finds fat middle-aged and unhappily-married George Bowling trying to revisit the world of his Edwardian childhood in rural Oxforshire only to discover that the certainties of his past are dead and that a very different future is looming up to claim him.
This new edition includes an introduction and extensive end-notes and an appendix containing original responses to the novel as well as letters and documents from the period in which it was written.
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Classification : General & Literary Fiction
Pub Date : JUN 9, 2022
Imprint : Constable
Page Extent : 304
Binding : PB
ISBN : 9781472133090
Price : INR 699
George Orwell
GEORGE ORWELL (1903-1950) was born Eric Arthur Blair in India. An author and journalist, Orwell was the author of many books, including Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty Four, and was one of the most influential figures in twentieth-century literature.
