Coming Up for Air (Masterplots II: British and Commonwealth Fiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Eric Arthur Blair
- First Published: 1939
- Type of Work: Social criticism
- Time of Work: 1938
- Setting: West Bletchley, a London suburb, and Lower Binfield, a rural English town
- Principal Characters: George Bowling, Hilda, Joe, Elsie Waters
- Genres: Long fiction, Social realism
- Subjects: Culture, Villages, 1930’s, England or English people, City life, London, World War I, Progress, Totalitarianism, Modernization, Fishing or fishermen, Nostalgia, Insurance
- Locales: London, England
The Novel
Coming Up for Air was George Orwell’s last conventional novel before he went off to write the two antiutopian fictions, Animal Farm (1945) and Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), for which he is most famous, and the only novel he ever wrote in the first person. It is a book with little plot in the usual sense, more a memory play and prophetic fantasy. Yet it is an important novel of ideas focusing on the radical changes experienced in England in the first four decades of the twentieth century—and the frightening changes still to come, in a decade of...
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