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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.
- George Orwell
- 318 (hardback), 248 (paperback)
- 1936
- 20 April 1936
Keep the Aspidistra Flying (released in the United States, New Zealand, South Africa and Zimbabwe as A Merry War) is a 1997 British romantic comedy-drama film directed by Robert Bierman and based on the 1936 novel by George Orwell.
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- Mike Batt
- 21 November 1997
- Peter Shaw
Keep the Aspidistra Flying, first published in 1936, is a socially critical novel by George Orwell. It is set in 1930's 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.
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- Paperback
Keep the Aspidistra Flying (1936) is about a literarily inclined bookseller’s assistant who despises the empty commercialism and materialism of middle-class life but who in the end is reconciled to bourgeois prosperity by his forced marriage to the girl he loves.
A review of Orwell's 1936 novel about a struggling poet and his love life. The novel explores the conflict between art and money, and the narrator's attitude towards class and society.
Keep the Aspidistra Flying. Chapter 1. The clock struck half past two. In the little office at the back. of Mr McKechnie's bookshop, Gordon--Gordon Comstock, last member. of the Comstock family, aged twenty-nine and rather moth-eaten. already--lounged across the table, pushing a four-penny packet of. Player's Weights open and shut with his thumb.
A satire of the lower middle-class life in London, where poet Gordon Comstock rejects money and advertising and struggles with poverty and love. Based on Orwell's own experiences of writing and working at a bookshop, the novel explores themes of creativity, conformity and social criticism.
