Coming Up for Air

Author:

George Orwell

Publisher:

Sanmati Publishers

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Publisher

Sanmati Publishers

Publication Year 2020
ISBN-13

9789390354603

ISBN-10 9789390354603
Binding

Paperback

Number of Pages 174 Pages
Language (English)
Weight (grms) 227
In 1938, at a point when Orwell had developed a distinct and known literary voice (but was not yet famous), he decided to write a novel that would achieve three things: warn against war, remind people of the values of traditional English life, and offer a glimmer of hope for the future during a dark time. Coming Up for Air, released in 1939, does this and is also, in the words of Orwell biographer, Bernard Crick, the "most English of his novels." In this first-person novel, 45-year-old George Bowling journeys back to the home of his boyhood. Bowling, who has won some money betting on horse racing, keeps the news hidden from his wife and children and decides to use the winnings to finance a trip to his childhood home. This, to Bowling, is "coming up for air." He has faced the unpleasant fact that a war is coming and wants to go to a tranquil place where he doesn't have to think about it for a time. He also wants a brief vacation away from his West Bletchley suburban London home's stresses: he wishes to get away from his bullying wife as well as the ceaseless pressure to earn a living. Bowling has idyllic memories of his childhood home in Lower Binfield from the period before World War I. However, when he returns, not surprisingly, everything has changed. It is not the tranquil place of fishing ponds that he remembers (his fishing pond has turned into a trash dump). The town has grown; it has a munitions plant; his childhood home has been turned into a tea shop; and his old girlfriend Elsie is now old and ugly. However, as the fat and toothless (he has false teeth) Bowling says to himself, no woman would ever look at him again unless paid—an acknowledgement of his own loss of looks.

George Orwell

George Orwell, the great essayist, novelist and journalist, was the pen-name of Eric Arthur Blair. He was a keen critic of imperialism, fascism, stalinism, and capitalism. His works are concerned with the socio-political conditions of his time, chiefly with the problem of human freedom. His plain colloquial style made him highly effective as pamphleteer and journalist.
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