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A Clergyman's Daughter

George Orwell · 1935 · Novel

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It critiques the hypocrisy and stifling nature of conventional religious and middle-class life, contrasting it with the raw reality of poverty and social displacement.

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Dorothy Hare, a dutiful clergyman's daughter, suffers a bout of amnesia and finds herself living a series of disparate, often harsh, lives among the working class. She eventually returns to her old life, but without memory of her experiences.

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