Keep the Aspidistra Flying George Orwell Constable

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. Σελίδες: 320, Έτος Έκδοσης: 0614, Διαστάσεις: 12.6x12.6cm