Keep the Aspidistra Flying.

by Orwell, George

$7,500 · Offered by Biblio

First edition

London: Victor Gollancz, 1936. Frist edition of Orwell's classic social criticism of money-worship and status. Octavo, original cloth. Very good in the rare original dust jacket with some restoration and flaps restored. First editions in the original jacket are rare. Owell s Keep the Aspidistra Flying centers on the story of Gordon Comstock and his romantic ambition to defy the worship of the money and status, and the dismal life that results. Orwell wrote the book in 1934 and 1935 when he was living at various locations near Hampstead in London, and drew on his experiences in these and the preceding few years. At the beginning of 1928 he lived in lodgings in Portobello Road from where he started his tramping expeditions, sleeping rough and roaming in the poorer parts of London. The novel was adapted into a 1997 film of the same name directed by Robert Bierman and stars Richard E. Grant and Helena Bonham Carter.

• Publisher: Victor Gollancz
• Year: 1936
• Edition: First Edition
• Binding: hardcover

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