A Clergyman's Daughter

by George Orwell

Overview

Dorothy Hare, the clergyman's daughter of this title, grows up subservient to her tyrannical father. But submission has its limit and Dorothy rebels, or at least her psyche does. She blacks out and reappears as a vagrant amnesiac whose adventures show us life, such as it is, from the underside.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781547298440
Publisher:	CreateSpace Publishing
Publication date:	06/09/2017
Pages:	180
Sales rank:	210,533
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.38(d)

About the Author

George Orwell (1903–1950), the pen name of Eric Arthur Blair, was an English novelist, essayist, and critic. He was born in India and educated at Eton. After service with the Indian Imperial Police in Burma, he returned to Europe to earn his living by writing. An author and journalist, Orwell was one of the most prominent and influential figures in twentieth-century literature. His unique political allegory Animal Farm was published in 1945, and it was this novel, together with the dystopia of 1984 (1949), which brought him worldwide fame. 

Editorial Reviews

"Nothing in the world is quite so irritating as dealing with mutinous children."

"The parents sat round watching, and in their crass faces-faces not harsh or evil, only blunted by ignorance and mean virtues-you could see a solemn approval, a solemn pleasure in the spectacle of sin rebuked."

"Now then, Dorothy! No snivelling, please! It all comes right somehow if you trust in God. Matthew vi. 35. The Lord will provide."

― George Orwell, A Clergyman's Daughter

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