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Coming Up for Air

Af: George Orwell Engelsk Paperback

Coming Up for Air

Af: George Orwell Engelsk Paperback
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Before the war! How long shall we go on saying that, I wonder? How long before the answer will be ''Which war?''The approach of the Second World War finds suburban insurance agent George Bowling in a reflective mood. As he thinks back to the sedate Oxfordshire village of his Edwardian boyhood, he contemplates regretfully what has happened to England since then, from the First World War, in which he served, to the seemingly inescapable money-grubbing and mechanization of everyday life in modern London. A lucky windfall allows Bowling to make a secret return to his idyllic birthplace: a fortifying respite, he hopes, from the struggles of life in a modern city on the verge of war. But is there really any going back?Published in 1939, Coming Up for Air is the most accomplished of Orwell''s early realist novels, casting light on the development of Orwell''s distinctive thinking as a cultural critic. The novel explores many of the themes Orwell later reprised in 1984: nostalgia, memory, and disillusionment in the face of modernity''s ills, including industrialisation, capitalist exploitation, and endless war.
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Before the war! How long shall we go on saying that, I wonder? How long before the answer will be ''Which war?''The approach of the Second World War finds suburban insurance agent George Bowling in a reflective mood. As he thinks back to the sedate Oxfordshire village of his Edwardian boyhood, he contemplates regretfully what has happened to England since then, from the First World War, in which he served, to the seemingly inescapable money-grubbing and mechanization of everyday life in modern London. A lucky windfall allows Bowling to make a secret return to his idyllic birthplace: a fortifying respite, he hopes, from the struggles of life in a modern city on the verge of war. But is there really any going back?Published in 1939, Coming Up for Air is the most accomplished of Orwell''s early realist novels, casting light on the development of Orwell''s distinctive thinking as a cultural critic. The novel explores many of the themes Orwell later reprised in 1984: nostalgia, memory, and disillusionment in the face of modernity''s ills, including industrialisation, capitalist exploitation, and endless war.
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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 256
ISBN-13: 9780198804819
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 0198804814
Kategori: Moderne Samtidslitteratur
Udg. Dato: 7 jan 2021
Længde: 20mm
Bredde: 196mm
Højde: 129mm
Forlag: Oxford University Press
Oplagsdato: 7 jan 2021
Forfatter(e): George Orwell
Forfatter(e) George Orwell

Kategori Moderne Samtidslitteratur

ISBN-13 9780198804819

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Paperback

Sider 256

Udgave

Længde 20mm

Bredde 196mm

Højde 129mm

Udg. Dato 7 jan 2021

Oplagsdato 7 jan 2021

Forlag Oxford University Press

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