Author: Orwell, George
Classic fiction (pre c 1945)
Published on 5 November 2021 by Alma Books Ltd (Alma Classics) in the United Kingdom as part of 'the Alma Classics Evergreens' series.
Paperback | 256 pages
128 x 199 x 22 | 238g
Despite
hailing from a comfortable family background, budding poet Gordon Comstock
decides to declare war on money and all the middle-class trappings that
wealth can buy. Working in a small bookshop and living in a bedsit in London,
he dreams of completing an ambitious poem in rhyme royal and devoting his
life to literature. But when poverty begins to damage his self-esteem and
taint his worldview, and his romantic and professional lives start falling
apart, will Gordon be able to uphold his anti-money principles, or will he
succumb to the lure of lucre and everything he stands against?
First published in 1936, Keep the Aspidistra Flying is the author’s third
novel, and one of his most outspoken works of social criticism. Partly
autobiographical, it sits alongside Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four as a
reminder of Orwell’s lucid narrative style and his abilities as a politically
and socially engaged writer.