# Keep the Aspidistra Flying

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- Authors: [D J Taylor](https://www.bookquiver.com/d-j-taylor)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2022-06-09

## Description

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.

## Editions

### Keep the Aspidistra Flying

- Publisher: constable
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-14-7213-308-3
- Published: 2022-06-09
- Language: en_GB

### Keep the Aspidistra Flying

- Publisher: constable
- ISBN: 978-14-7213-310-6
- Pages: 1
- Published: 2022-06-09
- Language: en_GB