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Angliya nakanune Vtoroy mirovoy voyny, glavnyy geroy romana 'Glotnut' vozduha' Dzhordzh Bouling po klichke 'Tolstun' vyigryvaet na skachkah 17 funtov i reshaet poekhat' v svoy rodnoy Binfild, chtoby sbezhat' ot obydennosti svoey zhizni, zanyat'sya edinstvennym uvlecheniem - rybalkoy, i predat'sya vospominaniyam o proshlom. No v derevne vsyo izmenilos' ne v luchshuyu storonu, idillicheskie mechty Dzhordzha rushatsya, ta Angliya, iz ego vospominaniy, ushla navsegda. Etot roman byl opublikovan v 1939 godu, schitaetsya naibolee sovershennym iz rannih proizvedeniy Oruella, v nyom podnimayutsya temy pamyati, nostal'gii, razocharovaniya i straha pered licom bed sovremennosti - industrializacii, kapitalisticheskoy ekspluatacii i voyny.