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George Orwell (1903-1950) was an English writer and publicist who became famous for his most famous dystopian novel 1984, where he depicted a horrific totalitarian society of the future, as well as the story Animal Farm, which allegorically described the times of the formation of the USSR.

Unfortunately, against the background of these well-known books, many readers still remain in the shadow of Orwell's other works, in particular the novel The Pastor's Daughter, in which the writer, with his characteristic observation and depth, reflects on issues of faith and its loss, tells about the lingering desire for another life and the unconscious search for freedom from the shackles and conventions of the society of the English province of the 30s of the last century. This is a sometimes harsh, sometimes sentimental story about the predetermination of fate, about the unexpected freedom gained and the fear of it, which is sometimes so great that a voluntary return to the usual prison of hopeless everyday life is perceived as the highest good. Ultimately, this is a novel about the paradoxical and contradictory nature of human nature, and therefore, to some extent, about each of us.

Dorothy Hare is the daughter of the Honourable Charles Hare, with all the classic implications of running a household, managing a modest church budget, caring for an often irritable and ungrateful father, and attending the obligatory visits to the flock of the Church of England, which is gradually losing ground among the faithful, giving way to more modern denominations that are not so far behind the trends of the times. Dorothy Hare is still single, although she will soon cross the threshold that separates youth from maturity, which, of course, does not make her optimistic about the prospects for her future life. Dorothy would have seen nothing but a small English town in her life, with no prospects of ever changing or even breaking the vicious circle of her not-so-joyful life, if it weren't for a strange accident that pulls her out of this grey monotony and throws her into a whirlpool of a completely different life - hard, bizarre, exhausting, but so real.

In the novel The Pastor's Daughter, Orwell reflects on life without choice, on hopelessness, when the fear that nothing will ever change is proportional to the fear of change, and finally on the fact that, once released, former prisoners oftenprisoners often seek to return to the prison of monotonous predetermination, because, among other things, true freedom also has the ability to frighten.