George Orwell Keep the Aspidistra Flying (Paperback) (UK IMPORT)

Description: Further DetailsTitle: Keep the Aspidistra FlyingCondition: NewEAN: 9780141395470ISBN: 9780141395470Publisher: Penguin ClassicsFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 01/02/2014Item Height: 181mmItem Length: 111mmItem Width: 16mmItem Weight: 169gAuthor: George OrwellLanguage: EnglishISBN-10: 0141395478Description: 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 Orwell's 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.Country/Region of Manufacture: GBGenre: FictionBook Series: Penguin Modern ClassicsTopic: Classic FictionRelease Year: 2014 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.

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