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  • Keep the Aspidistra Flying

    George Orwell

    Paperback (Mariner Books, March 19, 1969)
    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.
  • Keep the Aspidistra Flying

    George Orwell, Richard Brown

    MP3 CD (Blackstone on Brilliance Audio, Aug. 7, 2018)
    Gordon Comstock is a poor young man who works by day in a grubby London bookstore and spends his evenings shivering in a rented room, trying to write. Gordon has published a slim volume of verse and is determined to keep free of the "money world" of safe, lucrative jobs, marriage, and family responsibilities. This world, to Gordon, spells the end of art and aspidistra, the homely, indestructible house plant that stands in every middle-class British window.Gordon's sweetheart, Rosemary, understands him: she is patient with his pride and lack of funds. But then, as it happens with all lovers, events overtake them.Orwell's picture of the "money world," as Gordon sees it, is in his best satirical vein.
  • Keep the Aspidistra Flying

    George Orwell

    eBook (Otbebookpublishing, March 20, 2020)
    "Keep the Aspidistra Flying", first published in 1936, is a socially critical novel by George Orwell. It is set in 1930s London. The main theme is Gordon Comstock's romantic ambition to defy worship of the money-god and status, and the dismal life that results. (Wikipedia)
  • Modern Classics Keep the Aspidistra Flying

    George Orwell

    Mass Market Paperback (Penguin Classic, March 4, 2014)
    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. Enlivened with vivid autobiographical detail, George Orwell's Keep the Aspidistra Flying is a tragically witty account of the struggle to escape from a materialistic existence, with an introduction by Peter Davison in Penguin Modern Classics.
  • Keep the Aspidistra Flying

    George Orwell

    eBook (Prabhat Prakashan, Nov. 28, 2017)
    Keep the Aspidistra Flying, is a socially critical novel by George Orwell. It is set in 1930s London. The main theme is Gordon Comstock's romantic ambition to defy worship of the money-god and status, and the dismal life that results.
  • Keep the Aspidistra Flying

    George Orwell

    eBook (Prabhat Prakashan, Nov. 28, 2017)
    Keep the Aspidistra Flying, is a socially critical novel by George Orwell. It is set in 1930s London. The main theme is Gordon Comstock's romantic ambition to defy worship of the money-god and status, and the dismal life that results.
  • Keep the Aspidistra Flying

    George Orwell

    eBook (Laurus Book Society, Nov. 8, 2019)
    Keep the Aspidistra Flying, first published in 1936, is a socially critical novel by George Orwell. It is set in 1930s London. The main theme is Gordon Comstock's romantic ambition to defy worship of the money-god and status, and the dismal life that results.
  • Keep the Aspidistra Flying

    George Orwell

    eBook (Parnell Classics, March 15, 2014)
    Waging a losing war with the Money God, Gordon Comstock lives in a small bed-sit and works in a bookstore. A deeply dark yet compassionate satire about the role of money in the mid-20th century western world, Keep the Aspidistra Flying is at turns tragic and comic as Gordon struggles to reconcile his disdain for the entitled world in which he was raised with his own need to build a future for himself and his girlfriend Rosemary.
  • Modern Classics Keep the Aspidistra Flying

    George Orwell

    Paperback (Penguin Classic, Oct. 31, 2000)
    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. Enlivened with vivid autobiographical detail, George Orwell's Keep the Aspidistra Flying is a tragically witty account of the struggle to escape from a materialistic existence, with an introduction by Peter Davison in Penguin Modern Classics.
  • Keep The Aspidistra Flying

    George Orwell

    Mass Market Paperback (Penguin UK, Jan. 2, 1962)
    1988, Paperback, 269 pages
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  • Keep the Aspidistra Flying

    George Orwell

    Paperback (Oxford City Press, Sept. 12, 2012)
    "Keep the Aspidistra Flying", though it is one of Orwell's least known novels, explores his usual themes--the various forms of oppression of the individual by society. Here the comfortable middle class life is symbolised by the aspidistra, and is governed by the "Money God". Gordon struggles to break free of the Money God, but will he eventually keep the aspidistra flying?
  • 20th Century Keep The Aspidistra Flying

    George Orwell

    Paperback (Penguin Classic, Jan. 2, 1990)
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