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George Orwell

Keep the Aspidistra Flying

Publisher: © 1984 Penguin Books, GB, London, ISBN 0 14 00. 1698 8.

Copyright: © the Estate of Eric Blair, 1936.

First Published: in 1936.

Reprinted: 1963, 1965, 1966, 1968, 1970, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1977, 1978, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984.

Made and printed: in Great Britain by Richard Clay (The Chaucer Press) Ltd., Bungay, Suffolk.

Set: in Monotype Baskerville.

Front cover photograph: by Huphrey Sutton.

Back cover photograph: © BBC.

OCR: Mikhail V. Chernyshev; E-Mail: chernyshev@laban.rs

By Penguin Books:

Gordon Comstock, poet manque and author of Mice (‘a sneaky little foolscap octavo’) walks out of a ‘good’ job and embarks on a long, deliberate and ultimately fruitless slide into penury.

In charting his anti-hero's attempted renunciation (or escape), Orwell was examining themes which run through the whole of his life and writing, from Down and Out in Paris and London to 1984.

Contents:

• Keep the Aspidistra Flying
George Orwell
• Preface
by Penguin Books