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 edit...

"That's the way we're going nowadays. Everything slick and streamlined, everything made out of something else."

"Sentimental, you say? Anti-social? Oughtn't to prefer trees to men? I say it depends what trees and what men."

― George Orwell, Coming Up for Air

Coming Up for Air is the seventh book by English writer George Orwell, published in June 1939 by Victor Gollancz. It was written between 1938 and 1939 while Orwell spent time recuperating from illness in French Morocco, mainly in Marrak...

"There are occasions when it pays better to fight and be beaten than not to fight at all."

"When I see an actual flesh-and-blood worker in conflict with his natural enemy, the policeman, I do not have to ask myself which side I am on."

"The whole experience of being hit by a bullet is very interesting and I think worth describing in detail."

― George Orwell, Homage to Catalonia

Homage to Catalonia is George Orwell's personal account of his experiences and observations fighting for the POUM ...