A Clergyman's Daughter

Name: A Clergyman's Daughter
Brand: Findaway Voices
Availability: InStock
Author: George Orwell
ISBN: 9798822629349

Author: George Orwell

Narrator: N. A. Diel

Unabridged: 8 hr 47 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Ran Audio

Published: 06/04/2021

Categories: Fiction, Classic, Drama

Synopsis

A Clergyman's Daughter is a 1935 novel by English author George Orwell. It tells the story of Dorothy Hare, the clergyman's daughter of the title, whose life is turned upside down when she suffers an attack of amnesia.It is Orwell's most formally experimental novel, featuring a chapter written entirely in dramatic form, but he was never satisfied with it and he left instructions that after his death it was not to be reprinted.Despite these instructions, Orwell did consent that to cheap editions "of any book which may bring in a few pounds for my heirs" following his death.

About George Orwell

Eric Arthur Blair (1903-1950), better known by his pen name George Orwell, was an English novelist, essayist, journalist, and critic. His work is marked by lucid prose, awareness of social injustice, opposition to totalitarianism, and outspoken support of democratic socialism. He is best known for the allegorical novella Animal Farm (1945) and the dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949). Orwell's work continues to influence popular and political culture, and the term Orwellian - descriptive of totalitarian or authoritarian social practices - has entered the language together with many of his neologisms, including Big Brother, Thought Police, newspeak, doublethink, and thoughtcrime.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Magrat on July 01, 2020

Esta novela me ha parecido super sorprendente y adictiva. La historia nos presenta a Dorothy, la hija de un clérigo más bien pobre que, a sus 26 años, vive entregada a las labores de la parroquia casi como una esclava. Este inicio me recordó muchísimo a novelas como las de Elizabeth Gaskell o las Bro......more

Goodreads review by MJ on March 20, 2013

Orwell sharpens his satiric knives in this early novel about Dorothy and her life of perpetual misery living in a backward petit bourgeois town. Capturing the pure hell of ill-bred country folk and hateful religious fustians, Orwell creates a sense of smothering hopelessness as his heroine finds her......more