Publisher's Synopsis

Keep the Aspidistra Flying, first published in 1936, is a socially critical novel by George Orwell. It is set in 1930s London. The main theme is Gordon Comstock's romantic ambition to defy worship of the money-god and status, and the dismal life that results. He etches the ugly insanity of what Gordon calls "the money-world" in unflinching detail, but the satire has a second edge, too, and Gordon himself is scarcely heroic. In the course of his misadventures, we become grindingly aware that his radical solution to the problem of the money-world is no solution at all--that in his desperate reaction against a monstrous system, he has become something of a monster himself.

Book information

ISBN: 9789390354832
Publisher: Repro India Limited
Imprint: Tingle Books
Pub date:
DEWEY: FIC
Language: English
Number of pages: 244
Weight: 320g
Height: 138mm
Width: 215mm
Spine width: 20mm