Keep The Aspidistra Flying: (Authorized Orwell Edition): A Mariner Books Classic (Harvest Book) - Softcover

Orwell, George

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0156468999 ISBN 13: 9780156468992

Publisher: Mariner Books Classics, 2021

Synopsis

A pre-cursor to his more famous works of Animal Farm and 1984, Keep the Aspidistra Flying is Orwell’s social commentary on capitalism’s constraints. Orwell captures the struggles of an aspiring writer with almost pitch-perfect attention to psychological detail, exploring the gulf between art and life.
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.

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About the Author

George Orwell (1903–1950), the pen name of Eric Arthur Blair, was an English novelist, essayist, and critic. He was born in India and educated at Eton. After service with the Indian Imperial Police in Burma, he returned to Europe to earn his living by writing. An author and journalist, Orwell was one of the most prominent and influential figures in twentieth-century literature. His unique political allegory Animal Farm was published in 1945, and it was this novel, together with the dystopia of 1984 (1949), which brought him worldwide fame. 

Edition details

• Publisher: Mariner Books Classics
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0156468999
• ISBN 13: 9780156468992
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256