Which Author wrote 'Burmese Days' in 1934 and 'Coming Up For Air' in 1939'?
Coming Up for Air postulates a world in which these things are simply not there any more." Coming Up for Air Coming Up for Air is a novel by George Orwell, first published in June 1939, shortly before the outbreak of World War II. It combines premonitions of the impending war with images of an idyllic Thames-side Edwardian era childhood. The novel is pessimistic, with its view that speculative builders, commercialism and capitalism are killing the best of rural England, "everything cemented over", and there are great new external threats. As a child, Orwell lived at Shiplake and Henley in the Thames Valley. His
Coming Up for Air North Africa where he stayed, in French Morocco, mainly in Marrakesh, from September 1938 to March 1939. (Orwell never learned the source of the money and he accepted it only on condition that it be considered a loan. He repaid the loan, eight years later, when he began making money from the success of "Animal Farm".) Orwell wrote "Coming Up for Air" while he was in North Africa and left the manuscript at his agent's office within a few hours of arriving back in England on 30 March 1939. It was submitted to Victor Gollancz, who had an option on