An edition of Keep the Aspidistra Flying (1936)

Keep the aspidistra flying.

[1st American ed.]

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An edition of Keep the Aspidistra Flying (1936)

Keep the aspidistra flying.

[1st American ed.]

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  • ★★★ 3.4 (5 ratings) ·
  • 29 Want to read
  • 1 Currently reading
  • 5 Have read

Gordon Comstock loathes dull, middle-class respectability and worship of money. He gives up a 'good job' in advertising to work part-time in a bookshop, giving him more time to write. But he slides instead into a self-induced poverty that destroys his creativity and his spirit. Only Rosemary, ever-faithful Rosemary, has the strength to challenge his commitment to his chosen way of life. Through the character of Gordon Comstock, Orwell reveals his own disaffection with the society he once himself renounced.

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Publisher
Harcourt, Brace
Language
English
Pages
248

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Subjects

Literature, Fiction, Authors, Young men, Booksellers and bookselling, Alternative lifestyles, British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author), Fiction, general, English literature, Social life and customs, Fathers and daughters, Children of clergy, Poverty, Amnesia, Clergy, Middle class, Young women, Belief and doubt

Places

London (England), England, London, Suffolk

Times

1930's, 20th century

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Cover of: Keep the Aspidistra Flying
Keep the Aspidistra Flying
2014, Penguin Books, Limited, Penguin Books
in English
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Cover of: Aspidistra
Aspidistra
2005, Can
in Turkish
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Cover of: Keep the aspidistra flying
Keep the aspidistra flying
1999, Harcourt, Brace
in English
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Cover of: Keep the Aspidistra Flying (The Complete Works of George Orwell)
Keep the Aspidistra Flying (The Complete Works of George Orwell)
September 28, 1987, Secker & Warburg
Hardcover - Complete Ed edition
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Cover of: Keep the Aspidistra Flying
Keep the Aspidistra Flying
March 19, 1969, Harvest Books
in English
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Cover of: Keep the aspidistra flying.
Keep the aspidistra flying.
1956, Harcourt, Brace
in English - [1st American ed.]

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New York
Genre
Fiction.

Classifications

Library of Congress
PZ3.O793 Ke3, PR6029.R8 Ke3

The Physical Object

Pagination
248 p.
Number of pages
248

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL6197170M
Internet Archive
keepaspidistrafl00orwe
LCCN
56005326
Library Thing
7163

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