Author

Publication

1986-04-04 - Secker & Warburg

Language

English

Word Count

80,000 words, Guess

Page Count

320 pages

Identifiers

and 3 more
  • Library of Congress Control Number84000176
  • Goodreads142490
  • LibraryThing1556320

Classifications

  • LCCPR6029.R8

Description

One of Orwell’s earlier novels this relates the strange story of a young unmarried woman who is seemingly content to keep house for her father, a village rector. After a dinner with a local bachelor she wakes eight days later in the Old Kent Road in London’s East End with amnesia and no idea how she came to be there. Being without funds she accompanies some vagrants to Kent for hop-picking and then returns to London where she ends up sleeping rough in Trafalgar Square.

First Sentence

AS THE ALARM CLOCK on the chest of drawers exploded like a horrid little bomb of bell metal, Dorothy, wrenched from the depths of some complex, troubling dream, awoke with a start and lay on her back looking into the darkness in extreme exhaustion.

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