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Start giftingA Clergyman’s Daughter
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Learn moreDorothy Hare, the dutiful daughter of a rector in Suffolk, spends her days performing good works and cultivating good thoughts, pricking her arm with a pin when a bad thought arises. She does her best to reconcile her father’s fanciful view of his position in the world with such realities as the butcher’s bill. But even Dorothy’s strength has its limits, and one night, as she works feverishly on costumes for the church-school play, she blacks out. When she comes to, she finds herself on a London street, clad in a sleazy dress and unaware of her identity. After a series of degrading adventures—picking hops in Kent, sleeping among the down-and-outers in Trafalgar Square, spending a night in jail, and teaching in a grubby day school for girls—she is rescued. But although she regains her life as a clergyman’s daughter, she has lost her faith.
Eric Arthur Blair (1903-1950), better known by his pen-name, George Orwell, was born in India, where his father worked for the Civil Service. An author and journalist, Orwell was one of the most prominent and influential figures in twentieth-century literature. His unique political allegory Animal Farm was published in 1945, and it was this novel, together with the dystopia of Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), which brought him world-wide fame. His novels and non-fiction include Burmese Days, Down and Out in Paris and London, The Road to Wigan Pier and Homage to Catalonia.
Richard Brown (1937–2005) (a.k.a. Joseph Porter), was a former ballet dancer, actor, and popular audiobook narrator. Born in England, Richard came to the United States early in his career and performed with numerous regional ballet companies. After retiring from the ballet, he pursued a career in acting and recorded dozens of audiobooks for numerous publishers.
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“The most sorrowfully funny piece of literature I can recall reading. The pathos of Dorothy’s life becomes so real, one loses all feeling of detachment…This is what social fiction must be––not dialectic, but idea transmuted into experience.”
“Thanks to his masterful writing, Dorothy becomes a real person and her fate deeply significant. Richard Brown’s narration does justice to the text.”
“Destined to become a classic…A beautiful example of the chilling somberness, sharp-toothed satire, and humor that were part of the Orwell genius.”
“Orwell’s compassion for Dorothy Hare, ensnared by faith, birth, and gender to toil thanklessly as her minister father’s unpaid curate, is admirable, and his evocation, early in the novel, of a woman’s consciousness totally subsumed by the mostly trivial demands of others stands shoulder to shoulder with the best feminist fiction.”
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