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Keep the Aspidistra Flying. Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1936. A modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides with detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, and more. Download PDF.
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.
Keep the Aspidistra Flying. In Orwell’s third novel, poet and part-time bookseller Gordon Comstock (whose debut collection, Mice, showed ‘exceptional promise’ according to the TLS) grapples with rejecting money-worship and a steady job in advertising, poverty and the dulling of his creativity, and faithful girlfriend Rosemary.
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.
Apr 18, 2000 · KEEP THE ASPIDISTRA FLYING. Though I speak with the tongues of men of angels, and have not money, I am become as a sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not money, I am ...
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Oct 26, 2000 · 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...
