Coming Up for Air (Oxford World's Classics) - Softcover

Buch 3 von 8: Essential Orwell Classics

Orwell, George

 
9780198804819: Coming Up for Air (Oxford World's Classics)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0198804814 ISBN 13: 9780198804819
Verlag: Oxford University Press, 2023

Inhaltsangabe

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.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Marina MacKay is Professor of English Literature and Tutorial Fellow of St Peter's College, University of Oxford. She has published extensively on mid-twentieth-century British literature and culture, and her most recent book is Ian Watt: The Novel and the Wartime Critic (OUP, 2018).

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Oxford University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2023
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Englisch
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0198804814
ISBN 13 
9780198804819
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