{"product_id":"9781847499097","title":"A Clergyman's Daughter","description":"Author: Orwell, George\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781847499097\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Bloomsbury\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 29 Oct 2024\u003cbr\u003ePages: 256 Format: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTwenty-eight-year-old Dorothy Hare leads a life of drudgery and self-abnegation in the house of her father, the rector of Knype Hill, helping him stave off his creditors and making costumes for fund-raising events. When, after being invited to dinner by Mr Warburton, a local atheist and libertine, she is glimpsed in his arms by the village gossip, Mrs Semprill, Dorothy suffers a breakdown and, struck by amnesia, embarks on journey that will see her join a group of vagrants, pick hops in the fields of Kent, stay in a hotel for \"working girls\" and sleep rough on the streets of London.\u003cbr\u003ePerhaps the most experimental among his writings, A Clergyman's Daughter, first published in 1935, is Orwell's second work of fiction     and one that, in its depiction of a protagonist who rebels against and is ultimately vanquished by the society that oppresses her, is a clear prefiguration of later novels such as Keep the Aspidistra Flying and Nineteen Eighty-Four.","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46643237945502,"sku":"UBD-9781847499097","price":14.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781847499097.jpg?v=1774485068","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781847499097","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}