An edition of Keep the Aspidistra Flying (1936)

Keep the aspidistra flying

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An edition of Keep the Aspidistra Flying (1936)

Keep the aspidistra flying

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  • ★★★ 3.40 ·
  • 5 Ratings
  • 29 Want to read
  • 1 Currently reading
  • 5 Have read

Gordon Comstock refuses to be corrupted by the world around him and chooses a low paying job and a life of poverty over prosperity and family responsibilities; however, the more he struggles against the money god, the more he realizes that it is a futile journey.

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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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Aspidistra
2005, Can
in Turkish
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Keep the aspidistra flying
1999, Harcourt, Brace
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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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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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Series
A Harvest book
Genre
Fiction.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
823/.912
Library of Congress
PR6029.R8 K44 1999, PR6029.R8K44 1999

The Physical Object

Pagination
248 p. ;
Number of pages
248

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL6803413M
Internet Archive
keepaspidistrafl00orwe_086
ISBN 10
0156468999
LCCN
00265574, 56005326
OCLC/WorldCat
1199526, 366583
Library Thing
7163
Goodreads
509198

Work Description

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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