George Orwell
“Keep the Aspidistra Flying”

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Gordon Comstock, poet manqué and author of Mice (‘a sneaky little foolscap octavo’) walks out of a ‘good’ job and embarks on a long, deliberate and ultimately fruitless slide into penury.

In charting his anti-hero's attempted renunciation (or escape), Orwell was examining themes which run through the whole of his life and writing, from Down and Out in Paris and London to 1984.

First Published in 1936
Reprinted 1963, 1965, 1966, 1968, 1970, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1977, 1978, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984
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Copyright © the Estate of Eric Blair, 1936
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George Orwell“Keep the Aspidistra Flying”

By Penguin Books:

George Orwell
“Keep the Aspidistra Flying”