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Coming Up for Air

by George Orwell
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George Bowling, the hero of this comic novel, is a middle-aged insurance salesman who lives in an average English suburban row house with a wife and two children. One day, after winning some money from a bet, he goes back to the village where he grew up, to fish for carp in a pool he remembers from thirty years before. The pool, alas, is gone, the village has changed beyond recognition, and the principal event of his holiday is an accidental bombing by the RAF.

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Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Kindle Book

  • Release date: October 22, 1969

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  • ISBN: 9780547564029
  • Release date: October 22, 1969

EPUB ebook

  • ISBN: 9780547564029
  • File size: 418 KB
  • Release date: October 22, 1969

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Kindle Book
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subjects

Classic Literature Fiction

Languages

English

Levels

Lexile® Measure:1060
Text Difficulty:6-9

George Bowling, the hero of this comic novel, is a middle-aged insurance salesman who lives in an average English suburban row house with a wife and two children. One day, after winning some money from a bet, he goes back to the village where he grew up, to fish for carp in a pool he remembers from thirty years before. The pool, alas, is gone, the village has changed beyond recognition, and the principal event of his holiday is an accidental bombing by the RAF.

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Classic Literature Fiction
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