Coming Up for Air - George Orwell

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Résumé :
Before the war! How long shall we go on saying that, I wonder? How long before the answer will be 'Which war?' The approach of the Second World War finds suburban insurance agent George Bowling in a reflective mood. As he thinks back to the sedate Oxfordshire village of his Edwardian boyhood, he contemplates regretfully what has happened to England since then, from the First World War, in which he served, to the seemingly inescapable money-grubbing and mechanization of everyday life in modern London. A lucky windfall allows Bowling to make a secret return to his idyllic birthplace: a fortifying respite, he hopes, from the struggles of life in a modern city on the verge of war. But is there really any going back? Published in 1939, Coming Up for Air is the most accomplished of Orwell's early realist novels, casting light on the development of Orwell's distinctive thinking as a cultural critic. The novel explores many of the themes Orwell later reprised in 1984 nostalgia, memory, and disillusionment in the face of modernity's ills, including industrialisation, capitalist exploitation, and endless war.

Biographie:
Dados pessoais: George Orwell nasceu em Motihari, na Bengala, perto da fronteira com o Nepal, no ano de 1903.Na ?poca, essa localidade pertencia ? ?ndia Brit?nica. O nome verdadeiro do escritor era Eric Arthur Blair. Educado pr?ximo de Oxford e Londres, o jovem Eric iniciou a vida adulta trabalhando na pol?cia imperial da Inglaterra sendo enviado para lugares insalubres, de col?nias inglesas no exterior. Contraiu dengue e precisou voltar para a Inglaterra, em 1927. Foi quando decidiu mudar de vida e se tornar jornalista e escritor. Morador de rua, vida em paris e atua??o na revolu??o espanhola foram algumas das experi?ncias de Orwell, que morreu aos 46 anos de tuberculose.

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George Orwell (25 June 1903 - 21 January 1950) was an English novelist and essayist, journalist. George Orwell is best known for the allegorical novella Animal Farm (1945) and the dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949). His non-fiction works includes The Road to Wigan Pier and Homage to Catalonia....