A Clergyman's Daughter
'The face was quite unfamiliar to her, and yet not strange. She had not known till this moment what face to expect'.A Clergyman's Daughter is George Orwell's least well-known, most unappreciated novel. Drawing on his experiences as a hop-picker, teacher, and urban vagrant, it tells the peculiar story of Dorothy Hare, the daughter of the Rector of St Athelstan's in the fictional town of Knype Hill. Unacknowledged by her absent-minded father and gossiped about by his rheumatic parishioners, Dorothy is suddenly and traumatically catapulted into the unknown. She wakes up in London, her memorytemporarily gone; travels to the Kentish countryside; s…
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- ISBN: 978-0-19-258780-0
- EAN: 9780192587800
- Produktnummer: 35530767
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
- Seitenangabe: 320 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 1'193 KB
Über den Autor
Nathan Waddell is a Senior Lecturer in Early Twentieth-Century and Modernist Literature at the University of Birmingham. He is the author of Modern John Buchan (2009), Modernist Nowheres: Politics and Utopia in Early Modernist Writing, 1900-1920 (2012), and Moonlighting: Beethoven and Literary Modernism (2019); a co-editor of essay volumes on utopianism, the work of Wyndham Lewis, and Aldous Huxley's Brave New World; and theeditor of The Cambridge Companion to 'Nineteen Eighty-Four' (forthcoming).
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