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Keep the Aspidistra Flying

by George Orwell

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ISBN10: 0156468999
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Gordon Comstock is a poor young man who works in a grubby London bookstore and spends his evenings shivering in a rented room, trying to write. He is determined to stay free of the “money world” of lucrative jobs, family responsibilities, and the kind of security symbolized by the homely aspidistra plant that sits in every middle-class British window.

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Is the lucrative return of employment worth the awful tedium of spending your days at something you hate? Gordon Comstock doesn't think so. He turns down decent jobs and good opportunities, because they go against his principles, chooses instead to take a low-paying job and live in squalor because he wants to make a living writing. Problem: he isn't very good at it, and being hungry makes it harder and harder to write. Sticking to his ideals, Gordon repeatedly refuses assistance from friends and family, sinking slowly deeper and deeper into poverty until he has to make a choice to survive. A job he doesn't want? or sticking true to his principles and creeping closer to starvation? This book is terribly depressing if you're an artist, but also full of wit and humor. Satire at its best.
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ISBN:
9780156468992
Author:
Orwell, George
Publisher:
Mariner Books
Location:
San Diego
Subject:
General
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Literary
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Great britain
Subject:
Classics
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Authors
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British and irish fiction (fictional works by
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London
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Young men
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Love stories
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Satire
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Booksellers and bookselling
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Bildungsromane.
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Literatura Expressao Inglesa
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Bildungsromans
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London (england)
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1st American ed.
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Harvest Book
Series Volume:
P8-P9
Publication Date:
March 1969
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Paperback
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Yes
Pages:
264
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