Coming Up for Air is a novel by George Orwell, first published in June 1939, shortly before the outbreak of World War II. It combines premonitions of the impending war with images of an idyllic Thames

George Bowling, the hero of this comic novel, is a middle-aged insurance salesman who lives in an average English suburban row house with a wife and two children. One day, after winning some money from a bet, he goes back to the village where he grew up, to fish for carp in a pool he remembers from thirty years before. The pool, alas, is gone, the village has changed beyond rec...(展开全部)

George Bowling, the hero of this comic novel, is a middle-aged insurance salesman who lives in an average English suburban row house with a wife and two children. One day, after winning some money from a bet, he goes back to the village where he grew up, to fish for carp in a pool he remembers from thirty years before. The pool, alas, is gone, the village has changed beyond rec...(展开全部)

《Coming Up for Air上来透口气 英文原版》是乔治·奥威尔的力作，以其深刻的主题和精湛的笔触描绘了一个中年保险推销员保灵的荒诞回乡之旅。小说通过保灵对逝去童年的追忆与现实生活的碰撞，展现了战争阴霾下普通人的生存困境与精神挣扎。情节引人深思，语言幽默而尖刻，是一部充满人性洞察与社会批判的文学经典。

CHARLES MURRAY is the W. H. Brady Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. He first came to national attention in 1984 with Losing Ground. His subsequent books include In Pursuit, The Bell Curve (with Richard J. Herrnstein), What It Means to Be a Libertarian, Human Accomplishment, In Our Hands, and Real Education. He received a bachelor's degree in history from Harvard and...(展开全部)

CHARLES MURRAY is the W. H. Brady Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. He first came to national attention in 1984 with Losing Ground. His subsequent books include In Pursuit, The Bell Curve (with Richard J. Herrnstein), What It Means to Be a Libertarian, Human Accomplishment, In Our Hands, and Real Education. He received a bachelor's degree in history from Harvard and...(展开全部)

CHARLES MURRAY is the W. H. Brady Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. He first came to national attention in 1984 with Losing Ground. His subsequent books include In Pursuit, The Bell Curve (with Richard J. Herrnstein), What It Means to Be a Libertarian, Human Accomplishment, In Our Hands, and Real Education. He received a bachelor's degree in history from Harvard and...(展开全部)

CHARLES MURRAY is the W. H. Brady Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. He first came to national attention in 1984 with Losing Ground. His subsequent books include In Pursuit, The Bell Curve (with Richard J. Herrnstein), What It Means to Be a Libertarian, Human Accomplishment, In Our Hands, and Real Education. He received a bachelor's degree in history from Harvard and...(展开全部)

梦想是什么？平凡的生活，还是远方的壮阔？爱冒险的男孩长成了赌气小老头，和意外闯入的童子军小胖乘着用生命守护的“气球屋”完成最华丽的冒险，这是最疯狂也是最浪漫的故事。

梦想是什么？平凡的生活，还是远方的壮阔？爱冒险的男孩长成了赌气小老头，和意外闯入的童子军小胖乘着用生命守护的“气球屋”完成最华丽的冒险，这是最疯狂也是最浪漫的故事。