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Book cover of a Penguin Books edition. 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, 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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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.
- $373,830
- Mike Batt
- 21 November 1997
- Peter Shaw
A study guide for the 1936 novel by George Orwell, who draws on his own experiences as a struggling writer in London. The novel follows Gordon Comstock, who rebels against poverty and middle-class culture, but faces consequences for his actions.
Jul 6, 2003 · Sat 5 Jul 2003 22.16 EDT. Keep the Aspidistra Flying, George Orwell's third novel published in 1936, is a savagely satirical portrait of the literary life.
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. Read More.
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.
