A Clergyman's Daughter (Summarized Edition)
Enriched edition. A small-town crisis of Christian faith—amnesia, scandal-monger, hop-picking, vagrants on the Old Kent Road, and mortification of fleshBy George Orwell
Length4h 5m
About this audiobook
A Clergyman's Daughter follows Dorothy Hare, a dutiful vicar's daughter whose sudden amnesia pitches her from Knype Hill into hop fields, London streets, a grim tea-shop, and a chaotic private school. Orwell blends documentary realism with bold experiment—most notably a nightlong, choric montage after Dorothy's collapse—to anatomize Anglican respectability, poverty, and female constraint. The episodic, picaresque form marries Dickensian satire to scrupulous social observation within the interwar problem-novel tradition. Composed while Eric Blair taught at threadbare private schools and joined hop-pickers and tramps, the novel condenses firsthand experience. Published in 1935, it bridges Down and Out in Paris and London and the later political fables, announcing the investigative ethic perfected in The Road to Wigan Pier. Orwell later called it a potboiler, yet it sharpened his themes of conscience and cant. For readers tracing Orwell's formation, or seeking a lucid portrait of interwar precarity, faith, and women's work, this novel is essential. Its unevenness is the price of genuine experiment; its moral intelligence and exact social textures reward scholars and general readers alike.
Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the author's voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readable—distilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Author Biography · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.
Audiobook details
GenreSpirituality and Religion
Length4 hrs 5 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJan 10, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
6A Clergyman's Daughter (pt. 1)
2Introduction
7A Clergyman's Daughter (pt. 2)
3Synopsis
8Analysis
4Historical Context
9Reflection
5Author Biography
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