{"product_id":"9781847499097","title":"A Clergyman's Daughter : Annotated Edition","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor:  Orwell, George \u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eClassic fiction (pre c 1945)\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 25 October 2023 by Alma Books Ltd (Alma Classics) in the United Kingdom.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback | 256 pages\u003cbr\u003e198 x 127 x 20 | 234g\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Far From The Madding Crowd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45024108740867,"sku":"9781847499097","price":7.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0404\/3207\/4914\/files\/9781847499097.jpg?v=1731346207","url":"https:\/\/www.maddingcrowdlinlithgow.live\/products\/9781847499097","provider":"Far From The Madding Crowd","version":"1.0","type":"link"}