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Long live the ficus! The priest's daughter

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Long live the ficus! The priest's daughter
14.99 €
"Long live the ficus!" (1936) - bitter, ironic, largely autobiographical novel. The protagonist is Gordon Comstock, an unrecognized poet, a failed writer, forced to serve in an advertising agency to earn a living. He despises material values and the vulgarity of the ordinary way of life, symbolized by the ficus on the window. In all his failures he blames money, but proud poverty only leads him into the depths of depression... Comstock needs to realize that besides high art there are also simple pleasures, and in the desire to make money there is nothing shameful. What will save him? "The Priest's Daughter" (1935) - a novel quite different from the sarcastic "Animal Farm" and dystopian dystopia "1984". A novel that will introduce you to a different Orwell - a master of psychological realism. This story is a cruel mockery of the outdated mores and patterns of a society that lives in a religion without faith and restricts the freedom of man to choose his life path.
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