Coming Up For Air Av George Orwell

<p><b>A new edition of Orwell''s elegiac fourth novel, introduced and annotated by his biographer, D.J. Taylor</b><br><br>First published in 1939 and dominated by the shadow of the Second World War, <i>Coming up for Air</i> finds fat, middle-aged and unhappily-married George Bowling trying to revisit the world of his Edwardian childhood in rural Oxforshire, only to discover that the certainties of his past are dead and that a very different future is looming up to claim him.<br><br>This new edition includes an introduction and extensive end-notes, and an appendix containing original responses to the novel as well as letters and documents from the period in which it was written.</p>