{"product_id":"coming-up-for-air-paperback-3","title":"Coming Up for Air - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eGeorge Orwell\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBefore the war  How long shall we go on saying that, I wonder? How long before the answer will be 'Which war?'\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe 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? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePublished in 1939, \u003cem\u003eComing Up for Air\u003c\/em\u003e 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 \u003cem\u003e1984\u003c\/em\u003e nostalgia, memory, and disillusionment in the face of modernity's ills, including industrialisation, capitalist exploitation, and endless war.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGeorge Orwell \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMarina MacKay is Professor of English Literature and Tutorial Fellow of St Peter's College, University of Oxford. She has published extensively on mid-twentieth-century British literature and culture, and her most recent book is \u003cem\u003eIan Watt: The Novel and the Wartime Critic\u003c\/em\u003e (OUP, 2018).\u003cbr\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 174\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.4 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 13, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48269999079673,"sku":"9789390354603","price":24.46,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/v-J6Lp6gcT9789390354603.webp?v=1775782420","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/coming-up-for-air-paperback-3","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}