A new edition of Orwell's end-of-tether third novel, introduced and annotated by his biographer, D.J. Taylor
First 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.
| ISBN: | 9781472133106 |
| Publication date: | 9th June 2022 |
| Author: | George Orwell |
| Publisher: | Constable an imprint of Little, Brown |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 320 pages |
| Series: | Orwell: The New Editions |
| Primary Genre | General Fiction |
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