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Coming Up for Air

scotsman.com - Books | 1 month ago

Book review: The Thirties: An Intimate History

...of Richard and Judy, and novels that reflected the social conditions of the time, such as Orwell's Coming Up for Air, or Walter Greenwood's Love on the Dole a although I'm surprised...

Wikipedia | 1 month ago

George Orwell

...at Marrakech. They rented a villa on the road to Casablanca and during that time Orwell wrote Coming Up for Air. They arrived back in England on 30 March 1939 and Coming Up for Air...

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Hayes, Hillingdon

...as The Fountain House Hotel. He hated his time in Hayes, camouflaging it lightly as West Bletchley in Coming Up for Air, as Southbridge in A Clergyman's Daughter and saying of it:

Wikipedia | 1 month ago

Nineteen Eighty-Four

...by totalitarian defenders, previously proposed in Homage to Catalonia (1938) and Animal Farm (1945), while Coming Up For Air (1939) celebrates the personal and political freedoms lost...

Wikipedia | 1 month ago

George Orwell bibliography

...Victor Gollancz Ltd edition for the general public) Homage to Catalonia (25 April 1938, Secker and Warburg) Coming Up for Air (12 June 1939, Victor Gollancz Ltd) Animal Farm (17...

Wikipedia | 2 months ago

Leopold Bloom

...Flame " as sitting with Molly Malone. It has also been suggested by Jeffrey Meyer in "Orwell's Apocalypse: Coming Up For Air, Modern Fiction Studies" that George Orwell's primary...

Wikipedia | 3 months ago

Coming Up for Air

...ill in 1938 and a friend funded a six-month stay in Morocco during the winter of 1938-1939. Orwell wrote the novel while he was there and left the manuscript at his agent's office within...

Wikipedia | 3 months ago

Woodbine (cigarette)

...Hawtrey. George Orwell also was known to smoke Woodbines, as did the character George Bowling in his novel Coming Up For Air. Leonard Bast in E. M. Forster's Howards End and Arthur Seaton...

Telegraph.co.uk - Books | 3 months ago

Nevil Shute: profile

...of the time had the capacity to think this one through. Henry Green in Party Going or George Orwell in Coming Up for Air allowed themselves to allude to the terrors to come, but...

Telegraph.co.uk - Leaders | 3 months ago

The countryside is a world we belong to

Rural England is at a crisis - it could die, or it could stay alive George Orwell's hero in Coming Up For Air goes back in memory to his home village of Binfield, where "beside the...

Wikipedia | 4 months ago

My Country Right or Left

...when the First World War broke out. Some of his recollections quoted in the essay he used in the novel Coming Up for Air published in 1939. Orwell had a traditional English upper middle...

Scotland on Sunday | 4 months ago

Peter Ross: Sound in the suburbs

...next to the Beevers is called Orwell Lodge, which is ironic as George Orwell loathed the suburbs. In Coming Up For Air, he described "a prison with the cells all in a row. A line of...