A Clergyman's Daughter - Softcover

Orwell, George

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0141184655 ISBN 13: 9780141184654

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 2000

Synopsis

Intimidated by her father, the rector of Knype Hill, Dorothy performs her submissive roles of dutiful daughter and bullied housekeeper. Her thoughts are taken up with the costumes she is making for the church school play, by the hopelessness of preaching to the poor and by debts she cannot pay in 1930s Depression England. Suddenly her routine shatters and Dorothy finds herself down and out in London. She is wearing silk stockings, has money in her pocket and cannot remember her name. Orwell leads us through a landscape of unemployment, poverty and hunger, where Dorothy's faith is challenged by a social reality that changes her life.

About this title

Book Description:

Volume 3 from The Complete Works Of George Orwell, available separately for the first time.

About the Author:

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 allegory Animal Farm was published in 1945, and it was this novel, together with the dystopia of Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), which brought him world-wide fame. His novels and non-fiction include Burmese Days, Down and Out in Paris and London, The Road to Wigan Pier and Homage to Catalonia.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0141184655
• ISBN 13: 9780141184654
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 336