George Orwell – Coming Up for Air
George Orwell's paean to the end of an idyllic era in British history, Coming Up for Air is a poignant ...
George Orwell's paean to the end of an idyllic era in British history, Coming Up for Air is a poignant ...
When Gabriel broke down my door, he took over my body and life. Never with force, but always with clever...
Jak wygrać życie pomoże Ci wyciągnąć wszystko, co najlepsze, z twoich nastoletnich lat.
George Orwell’s paean to the end of an idyllic era in British history, Coming Up for Air is a poignant account of one man’s attempt to recapture childhood innocence as war looms on the horizon from the author of Nineteen Eighty-Four, published in Penguin Modern Classics. George Bowling, forty-five, mortgaged, married with children, is an insurance salesman with an expanding waistline, a new set of false teeth – and a desperate desire to escape his dreary life. He fears modern times – since, in 1939, the Second World War is imminent – foreseeing food queues, soldiers, secret police and tyranny. So he decides to escape to the world of his childhood, to the village he remembers as a rural haven of peace and tranquility. But his return journey to Lower Binfield may bring only a more complete disillusionment…