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About this product
Product Identifiers
PublisherHarperCollins
ISBN-100156468999
ISBN-139780156468992
eBay Product ID (ePID)72380
Product Key Features
Book TitleKeep the Aspidistra Flying
Number of Pages256 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year1969
TopicGeneral, Literary
FeaturesReprint
GenreReference, Fiction
AuthorGeorge Orwell
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.7 in
Item Weight7.8 Oz
Item Length8 in
Item Width5.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN00-265574
Dewey Edition23
Dewey Decimal823.912
Edition DescriptionReprint
SynopsisA pre-cursor to his more famous works of Animal Farm and 1984, Keep the Aspidistra Flying is Orwell's social commentary on capitalism's constraints. Orwell captures the struggles of an aspiring writer with almost pitch-perfect attention to psychological detail, exploring the gulf between art and life. Gordon Comstock is a poor young man who works in a grubby London bookstore and spends his evenings shivering in a rented room, trying to write. He is determined to stay free of the "money world" of lucrative jobs, family responsibilities, and the kind of security symbolized by the homely aspidistra plant that sits in every middle-class British window., Gordon Comstock is a poor young man who works in a grubby London bookstore and spends his evenings shivering in a rented room, trying to write. He is determined to stay free of the "money world" of lucrative jobs, family responsibilities, and the kind of security symbolized by the homely aspidistra plant that sits in every middle-class British window., A pre-cursor to his more famous works of Animal Farm and 1984 , Keep the Aspidistra Flying is Orwell's social commentary on capitalism's constraints. Orwell captures the struggles of an aspiring writer with almost pitch-perfect attention to psychological detail, exploring the gulf between art and life.Gordon Comstock is a poor young man who works in a grubby London bookstore and spends his evenings shivering in a rented room, trying to write. He is determined to stay free of the "money world" of lucrative jobs, family responsibilities, and the kind of security symbolized by the homely aspidistra plant that sits in every middle-class British window.