George Orwell's "Coming Up for Air" is a moving ode to the end of an idyllic era in British history. The story follows George Bowling, a 45-year-old insurance agent who, with a mortgage, a family, and a growing waistline, struggles with the grind of life. Haunted by the looming threat of World War II in 1939, he fears the modern age with food shortages, soldiers, and tyranny. In an attempt to recapture his childhood innocence, he decides to return to the village of his youth, once a beacon of peace and tranquility. However, his journey to Lower Binfield threatens to leave him only more disillusioned.
Orwell's work is praised as both humorous and realistic and is seen as a precursor to his later classics such as "Nineteen Eighty-Four" and "Animal Farm." John Carey of the Sunday Times emphasizes that few novels bear the seeds of two classics while remaining so engagingly readable.
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