"Coming Up For Air" 1950 ORWELL, George

"Coming Up For Air" 1950 ORWELL, GeorgeORWELL, George Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 21 January 1950) was an English novelist, poet, essayist, journalist, and critic who wrote under the pen name of George Orwell. [278] pp. Harcourt, Brace and Company 1950 First Edition (non stated) Limited to 8,000 copies 8 1 2" x 5 3 4" VG VG Coming Up for Air is the seventh book and fourth novel by the English writer George Orwell, published in June 1939 by Victor Gollancz. It was written between 1938

ORWELL, George

Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950) was an English novelist, poet, essayist, journalist, and critic who wrote under the pen name of George Orwell.

[278] pp.

Harcourt, Brace and Company

1950

First Edition (non-stated)

Limited to 8,000 copies

8 1/2" x 5 3/4"

VG/ VG

Coming Up for Air is the seventh book and fourth novel by the English writer George Orwell, published in June 1939 by Victor Gollancz. It was written between 1938 and 1939 while Orwell spent time recuperating from illness in French Morocco, mainly in Marrakesh. He delivered the completed manuscript to Victor Gollancz upon his return to London in March 1939.

The story follows George Bowling, a 45-year-old husband, father, and insurance salesman, who foresees World War II and attempts to recapture idyllic childhood innocence and escape his dreary life by returning to Lower Binfield, his birthplace. The novel is comical and pessimistic, with its views that speculative builders, commercialism, and capitalism are killing the best of rural England, and that his country is facing the sinister appearance of new, external national threats.