{"product_id":"a-clergymans-daughter-by-george-orwell-9781847499097","title":"A Clergyman's Daughter","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\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. She helps him stave off his creditors and makes costumes for fund-raising events. After being invited to dinner by Mr Warburton, a local atheist and libertine, Dorothy is glimpsed in his arms by the village gossip, Mrs Semprill. As a result, she suffers a breakdown and, struck by amnesia, embarks on a journey that sees 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\n\n\u003cp\u003ePerhaps the most experimental among his writings, \u003cem\u003eA Clergyman’s Daughter\u003c\/em\u003e, first published in 1935, is Orwell’s second work of fiction. In its depiction of a protagonist who rebels against and is ultimately vanquished by the society that oppresses her, it is a clear prefiguration of later novels such as \u003cem\u003eKeep the Aspidistra Flying\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eNineteen Eighty-Four\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PTY Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46710184050924,"sku":"9781847499097","price":16.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/a60297f511b0f4aa8847d61ba163c991.jpg?v=1754132701","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.live\/products\/a-clergymans-daughter-by-george-orwell-9781847499097","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}