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Keep the Aspidistra Flying, Paperback / softback Book

Keep the Aspidistra Flying Paperback / softback

Edited by D.J. Taylor

Part of the Orwell: The New Editions series

Paperback / softback

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A new edition of Orwell's end-of-tether third novel, introduced and annotated by his biographer, D.J.

TaylorFirst published in 1936, and drawing on Orwell's own experiences of working in a Hampstead bookshop, Keep the Aspidistra Flying tracks the career of Gordon Comstock ('nearly 30 and moth-eaten already') a struggling poet who tries to rebel against the conventions of middle-class English life, only to be drawn inexorably back into the world that grinds him down. This new edition includes an introduction and extensive end-notes, and an appendix containing original responses to the novel as well as letters and documents from the period in which it was written.

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