A Clergyman's Daughter

by George Orwell Narrated by Richard Brown

Overview

Dorothy Hare, the dutiful daughter of a rector in Suffolk, spends her days performing good works and cultivating good thoughts, pricking her arm with a pin when a bad thought arises. She does her best to reconcile her father's fanciful view of his position in the world with such realities as the butcher's bill. But even Dorothy's strength has its limits, and one night, as she works feverishly on costumes for the church-school play, she blacks out. When she comes to, she finds herself on a London street, clad in a sleazy dress and unaware of her identity.

After a series of degrading adventures—picking hops in Kent, sleeping among the down-and-outers in Trafalgar Square, spending a night in jail, and teaching in a grubby day school for girls—she is rescued. But although she regains her life as a clergyman's daughter, she has lost her faith.

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From the Publisher

"Nothing in the world is quite so irritating as dealing with mutinous children."

"The parents sat round watching, and in their crass faces-faces not harsh or evil, only blunted by ignorance and mean virtues-you could see a solemn approval, a solemn pleasure in the spectacle of sin rebuked."

"Now then, Dorothy! No snivelling, please! It all comes right somehow if you trust in God. Matthew vi. 35. The Lord will provide."

― George Orwell, A Clergyman's Daughter

Product Details

BN ID:	2940169923261
Publisher:	Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Publication date:	02/05/2019
Edition description:	Unabridged

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