Coming Up for Air
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Coming Up for Air is a 1939 novel by George Orwell that follows a middle-aged insurance salesman seeking escape from modern life's anxieties through nostalgic return to his rural childhood.
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | novel ⓘ |
| author | George Orwell NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| authorPseudonym | George Orwell NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| containsElement | autobiographical elements ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| followedBy | Animal Farm NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
novel
ⓘ
political fiction ⓘ realist fiction ⓘ social commentary ⓘ |
| hasAuthor | Eric Arthur Blair NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCharacter |
Elsie Bowling
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
George Bowling NERFINISHED ⓘ Hilda Bowling NERFINISHED ⓘ Mr. Cheeseman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasISBN | 9780156196253 ⓘ |
| hasSubject |
English middle class
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environmental change ⓘ suburban life ⓘ threat of totalitarianism ⓘ |
| literaryForm | prose ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | English literature ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | 20th-century literature ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | George Bowling NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | first-person ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| placeOfFirstPublication | London NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| precededBy | Homage to Catalonia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| protagonistAge | middle-aged ⓘ |
| protagonistHometown | Lower Binfield NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| protagonistMotivation |
escape from modern life
ⓘ
return to childhood environment ⓘ |
| protagonistOccupation | insurance salesman ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1939 ⓘ |
| publisher | Victor Gollancz Ltd NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting | England ⓘ |
| settingTime |
interwar period
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years before World War II ⓘ |
| theme |
approach of war
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disillusionment ⓘ impact of modernity ⓘ loss of rural life ⓘ memory ⓘ middle-class anxiety ⓘ nostalgia ⓘ social change ⓘ |
| tone |
melancholic
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satirical ⓘ |
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