A Clergyman's Daughter

by George Orwell

Overview

Dorothy, the heroine of this novel, performs good works, cultivates good thoughts, and pricks her arm with a pin when a bad thought arises. She then has a series of unexpected and degrading adventures after becoming a victim of amnesia. Though she regains her life as a clergyman’s daughter, she has lost her faith.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780544310230
Publisher:	HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date:	01/01/1950
Pages:	324
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x (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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