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A Clergyman's Daughter

byGeorge Orwell

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.

Language

en

Published on

25/10/2023

Format

Paperback

ISBN

9781847499097

Who is this book for? Readers interested in social issues, character-driven narratives, and classic literature.

Topics Belief and doubtSocial IssuesIdentity
MoodMelancholic, Reflective
Female protagonist
Explicit scenesSuggestive Themes

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