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Keep the Aspidistra Flying, first published in 1936, is a socially critical novel by George Orwell. It is set in 1930s London. The main theme is Gordon Comstock's romantic ambition to defy worship of the money-god and status, and the dismal life that results.
In Keep the Aspidistra Flying, George Orwell has created a darkly compassionate satire to which anyone who has ever been oppressed by the lack of brass, or by the need to make it, will all too easily relate.
Keep the Aspidistra Flying (released in the United States, New Zealand, South Africa and Zimbabwe as A Merry War) is a 1997 British romantic comedy-drama film directed by Robert Bierman and based on the 1936 novel by George Orwell.
“Keep the aspidistra flying” is a play on “keep the red flag flying”—a lyric from the official song of the British Labour Party—that replaces the socialist red flag with a symbol of English middle-class culture.
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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. place in English literature. In English literature: The 1930s.
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 ...
