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Coming Up for Air is the seventh book and fourth novel by English writer George Orwell, published in June 1939 by Victor Gollancz. It was written between 1938 and 1939 while Orwell spent time recuperating from illness in French Morocco, mainly in Marrakesh.
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A novel by George Orwell about a middle-aged insurance salesman who reflects on his life and the world in the late 1930s. The novel explores themes of nostalgia, war, capitalism, and totalitarianism through flashbacks, memories, and observations.
Coming up for Air. George Orwell. 3.79. 18,328 ratings1,509 reviews. George Bowling, the hero of Orwell's comic novel, is a middle-aged insurance salesman who lives in an average English suburban row house with a wife and two children.
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A novel about a suburban insurance salesman who escapes London and returns to his childhood home near the Thames. The book reflects the pre-war anxiety, the tension between nostalgia and progress and the themes of 1984.
Sep 5, 2023 · A novel by George Orwell about a man who returns to his childhood home and faces the changes and challenges of his time. Learn about the themes, characters, and plot of this anti-war and anti-modernist satire.
I gave a terrific haul and the fish—a great huge silvery fish—came flying up through the air. The same moment all of us gave a yell of agony. The fish had slipped off the hook and fallen into the wild peppermint under the bank.
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From George Orwell, the author of 1984 and Animal Farm, Coming Up for Air is the classic, comic novel about the everyday struggles of the common man and a satiric look at the trappings of middle-class suburbia.
