Coming Up For AirA new edition of Orwell's elegiac fourth novel, introduced and annotated by his biographer, D. J. Taylor First published in 1939 and dominated by the shadow of the Second World War, Coming Up For Air finds fat, middle aged and unhappily married George Bowling trying to revisit the world of his Edwardian childhood in rural Oxfordshire. He attempts to reconnect with the certainties of his past, only to discover that they are dead, and a very different