{"product_id":"a-clergyman-s-daughter","title":"A Clergyman's Daughter","description":"\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\u003cp\u003eA Clergyman’s Daughter is part of Alma George Orwell Collection which includes Animal Farm, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Keep the Aspidistra Flying, Homage to Catalonia, Burmese Days and Coming Up for Air.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlma Classics is committed to making available a wide range of literature from around the globe. Most of the titles are enriched by an extensive critical apparatus, notes and extra reading material, as well as a selection of photographs. The texts are based on the most authoritative edition and edited using a fresh, accessible editorial approach. With an emphasis on production, editorial and typographical values, Alma Classics aspires to revitalize the whole experience of reading classics.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 336\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublication year:\u003c\/strong\u003e 2023\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"George Orwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46959815983158,"sku":"813","price":920.0,"currency_code":"EGP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/diamond-pub.com\/ar\/products\/a-clergyman-s-daughter","provider":"Diamond Pub","version":"1.0","type":"link"}