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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.
- George Orwell
- 1936
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.
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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. In Orwell’s third novel, poet and part-time bookseller Gordon Comstock (whose debut collection, Mice, showed ‘exceptional promise’ according to the TLS) grapples with rejecting money-worship and a steady job in advertising, poverty and the dulling of his creativity, and faithful girlfriend Rosemary.
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 ...
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Keep the Aspidistra Flying. Chapter 1. The clock struck half past two. In the little office at the back. of Mr McKechnie's bookshop, Gordon--Gordon Comstock, last member. of the Comstock family, aged twenty-nine and rather moth-eaten. already--lounged across the table, pushing a four-penny packet of. Player's Weights open and shut with his thumb.
