A Clergyman's Daughter

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' The face was quite unfamiliar to her, and yet not strange. She had not known till this moment what face to expect' . A Clergyman' s Daughter is George Orwell' s least well-known, most unappreciated novel. Drawing on his experiences as a hop-picker, teacher, and urban vagrant, it tells the peculiar story of Dorothy Hare, the daughter of the Rector of St Athelstan' s in the fictional town of Knype Hill. Unacknowledged byher absent-minded father and gossiped about by his rheumatic parishioners, Dorothy is suddenly and traumatically catapulted into the unknown. She wakes up in London, her memory temporarily gone; travels to the Kentishcountryside; spends a night in Trafalgar Square; works for the authoritarian schoolteacher Mrs Creevy; and then journeys back to her old, limited life. A novel about loss and return, A Clergyman' s Daughter charts the course of a young woman' s voyage out and circular homecoming. In his introduction to the novel, Nathan Waddell lays out the fantastical elements and socio-political dimensions of A Clergyman' s Daughter and examines how it drew inspirationfrom James Joyce' s epic modernist novel Ulysses, a book Orwell deeply admired. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World' s Classics has made available the widest range of literature fromaround the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford' s commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.