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The novel is a class that was published back in the 1949 and at the time the book was titled years ahead from its year of release i. Burmese days, keep the aspidistra flying, coming up for air. George orwell wrote coming up for air 1939 while recuperating from a wound from the spanish civil war in marrakesh, morocco. The mental squalor of his life thereafter with hilda and their two children and his present doubts as to what is coming and the 17 quid send him on a secret visit to his old home.
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