Keep The Aspidistra Flying

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Penguin Press
Publisher Place: Australia
Publisher Year: 2010
Edition: Reprint

Description: 276 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: Gordon Comstock loathes dull, middle-class respectability and worship of money. He gives up a good job in advertising to work part-time in a bookshop, giving him more time to write. But he slides instead into a self-induced poverty that destroys his creativity and his spirit. Only Rosemary, ever-faithful Rosemary, has the strength to challenge his commitment to his chosen way of life. Through the character of Gordon Comstock, Orwell reveals his own disaffection with the society he once himself renounced. Enlivened with vivid autobiographical detail, George Orwells Keep the Aspidistra Flying is a tragically witty account of the struggle to escape from a materialistic existence, with an introduction by Peter Davison in Penguin Modern Classics.

ISBN: 9780141194738