A Clergyman's Daughter. ORWELL, George.

First edition. This was Orwell's third book and his second novel, into which he injected "some experimental writing possibly in the manner of James Joyce's Ulysses" (Colls, p. 36). It is the author's only novel with a female protagonist. Orwell's biographer observes that "like every other novel Orwell was to write, it is the story of a rebellion that fails, am attempt to break out of the walls of the cell whose walls constrain you only to discover, a couple of hundred pages later, that you have been returned to the site of your original imprisonment" (Taylor, p. 199) Fenwick A.3a. Robert Colls, George Orwell: English rebel, 2013; D. J. Taylor, Orwell: The New Life, 2023. Octavo. Original black cloth, title to spine in green. Housed in a custom black cloth solander box with yellow labels. Contemporary ownership inscription to front free endpaper. Spine bumped at ends, occasional spots of wear to extremities, edges and contents a little foxed: a very good copy.