Coming Up for Air

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Coming Up for Air

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In George Orwell: From The Road to Wigan Pier to World War II
…paradoxically conservative strain in writing Coming Up for Air (1939), in which he uses the nostalgic recollections of a middle-aged man to examine the decency of a past England and express his fears about a future threatened by war and fascism. When World War II did come, Orwell was rejected…
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War Stories: 13 Modern Writers Who Served in War

In War Stories: 13 Modern Writers Who Served in War: George Orwell
>Coming Up for Air (1939) and, most famously, the political fable Animal Farm (1945) and the harrowing novel Nineteen Eighty-four (1949).
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