Animal Farm & Coming up for Air

Both the books Animal Farm & Coming up for Air are written by English essayist journalist and critic George Orwell. Animal Farm is an allegorical novella by George Orwell first published in England on 17 August 1945. The book tells the story of a group of farm animals who rebel against their human farmer hoping to create a society where the animals can be equal free and happy. Coming Up for Air is the seventh book by English writer George Orwell published in June 1939 by Victor Gollancz. It was written between 1938 and 1939 while Orwell spent time recuperating from illness in French Morocco mainly in Marrakesh. George Orwells paean to the end of an idyllic era in British history Coming Up for Air is a poignant account of one mans attempt to recapture childhood innocence as war looms on the horizon. George Bowling forty-five mortgaged married with children is an insurance salesman with an expanding waistline a new set of false teeth - and a desperate desire to escape his dreary life. He fears modern times - since in 1939 the Second World War is imminent - foreseeing food queues soldiers secret police and tyranny.