Coming Up for Air is a 1939 novel by George Orwell about George Bowling, a middle-aged insurance salesman who, fearing the coming World War II, escapes his mundane life to revisit his childhood village, Lower Binfield, hoping to recapture a lost, idyllic past, only to find it destroyed by commercialism and change, leading to a poignant and comical reflection on nostalgia, progress, and the loss of innocence.
