Remember, he didn’t find fame until a decade later. Orwell wrote the wort around 1934 and it was published in 1936 as one of his first books. It’s a reflection on the middle-class life of his era and its self-satisfaction. Right, so Orwell’s work was more social criticism. Keep the Aspidistra Flying and the Study of Wealth That cost-effective consideration is very much in keeping with the books themes, which examine the nature of wealth and the human capacity to abandon it. Hurray! That was courtesy of Alma Books in a competition we entered. Keep the Aspidistra Flying is also a book we won. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.Here’s our first George Orwell review since The Road to Wigan Pier (1937), which we covered back in 2016. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Offering a powerful portrayal of the emotional toll of precarity and the desire to break with capitalism, Keep the Aspidistra Flying is a significant work of mid-century British fiction but it also speaks to our own time. Completed while Orwell travelled north to work on The Road to Wigan Pier, this novel is a key transitional text in his career.
The novel contains the most sustained reflections on the role of the author and the artistic imagination anywhere in Orwell's fiction, as the book's protagonist struggles (and ultimately fails) to reconcile his romantic-aestheticist sensibilities with the pressures of the literary marketplace and with social expectations.
In his race to the bottom, only Rosemary, his long-suffering girlfriend, challenges Gordon's self-destructive course.
Disgusted by society's materialism, Gordon Comstock leaves his job in advertising to pursue an ill-fated career as a poet. Good and evil have no meaning any longer except failure and success.
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