Talk:A Clergyman's Daughter

I translated this article for the Esperanto Wikipedia, and hesitated over two words in particular: doubtlessly -- (in: but somehow forgets about the hardship and remembers only the positive side during the off season, and doubtlessly returns.) Who is without doubt, the critic or the laborer? leniency -- (in:how a socialist leniency is prevalent,) Should this be "tendency"? If not, who is being lenient and how? --Oryanw 03:35, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

URLs

Both external links seem to be broken. Are there any other ressources on the web? --129.206.196.28 14:48, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

I use this Russian site. --BenWhitey 14:16, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

Clergyman's Daughter

• I think that the article should include something that discusses how the book's structure changes for about one chapter to become similar to a play. However, I do not have any idea what this means and I have been unable to find any analysis on the web that explains it. --BenWhitey 14:19, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

Orwell had read and been greatly impressed by James Joyce's Ulysses (we know he was because he wrote to a friend about it at length) and the most likely explanation for the stylistic experimentation in this chapter is that he wanted to try something similar to Ulysses's so-called "Nighttown" chapter, which is also in dramatic form. The form of Joyce's book owes more to Gustave Flaubert's novel The Temptation of Saint Anthony than it does to any actual play, so Orwell is sort of doing Flaubert at one remove. Lexo (talk) 11:57, 19 August 2008 (UTC)

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BetacommandBot (talk) 20:52, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

Major rewrite needed

This article is barely in English. Okay, it's not one of the great novels of all time and it's not even Orwell's best novel - in fact, it's probably his worst - but it still deserves literate treatment. There are some potentially useful references which are not sourced. The rest of it is mere belles-lettres by people who want to sound off about the book. None of it is properly referenced to Orwell's own published comments about the book; since his collected works are now in print in a definitive edition, there is no excuse for this. I will start revising this article, cutting the guff out of it and sourcing any disputable comments where I can. Lexo (talk) 00:33, 18 August 2008 (UTC)

Minor detail

Have just noticed that the first edition cover of the US version is The Clergyman's... whereas all my references (British) use A Clergyman's... Feedback, anyone? --Technopat (talk) 12:09, 21 December 2008 (UTC)

Characters

I noted that there wern't many characters listed. I decided to add more of them and their importance to the story.--English cheese man (talk) 19:48, 23 November 2011 (UTC)