{"product_id":"a-clergymans-daughter-george-orwell-9781847499097","title":"A Clergyman's Daughter","description":"Twenty-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.\nPerhaps 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.","brand":"Alma Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50685549904160,"sku":"9781847499097","price":7.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0753\/2812\/7264\/files\/9781847499097.jpg?v=1781202950","url":"https:\/\/bookcorner.com\/products\/a-clergymans-daughter-george-orwell-9781847499097","provider":"The Book Corner","version":"1.0","type":"link"}