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George Orwell. 3.89. 21,966 ratings1,750 reviews. London, 1936. Gordon Comstock has declared war on the money god; and Gordon is losing the war. Nearly 30 and "rather moth-eaten already," a poet whose one small book of verse has fallen "flatter than any pancake," Gordon has given up a "good" job and gone to work in a bookshop at half his former ...
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Writer’s Study: George Orwell’s Keep the Aspidistra Flying. In this week’s Dispatches from The Secret Library, Dr Oliver Tearle reviews Orwell’s early novel about the struggles of the writer. Depending on your tastes, you can blame or congratulate George Orwell for Wetherspoons.
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
Apr 6, 2013 · Review: Keep the Aspidistra Flying by George Orwell. Keep the Aspidistra Flying (1936) is one of George Orwell ’s earlier novels and one which he reserved little fondness for. Gordon Comstock, a mediocre poet, has left his comfortable job at the New Albion advertising agency in favour of dead-end work in a small bookshop.
Keep The Aspidistra Flying. No real sex, no violence, no action and no slapstick comedy. In the absence of such investor-friendly levers, it is - as director Bierman (the man behind Vampire's...
Rereading: Keep The Aspidistra Flying by George Orwell — should you choose middle-class cushiness or poetic poverty? In this underrated 1936 novel, a wannabe poet ekes out a living, growing...
Dec 25, 2018 · 25th December 2018 by Orwell Society. In 1945 George Orwell reviewed his career and wrote notes to his literary executor: two of his novels should never be republished. The first was A Clergyman’s Daughter. The other was Keep the Aspidistra Flying (‘Aspidistra’) which he described as a ‘silly potboiler’ he should never have written.
