Keep the Aspidistra Flying Free Download PDF By George Orwell
| Title | : | Keep the Aspidistra Flying |
| Author | : | George Orwell |
| Format | : | Paperback |
| Page | : | 277 pages |
| ISBN | : | 0141183721 |
London, 1936 Gordon Comstock has declared war on the money god and Gordon is losing the war Nearly 30 and rather moth eaten already, a poet whose one small book of verse has fallen flatter than any pancake, Gordon has given up a good job and gone to work in a bookshop at half his former salary Always broke, but too proud to accept charity, he rarely sees his few London, 1936 Gordon Comstock has declared war on the money god and Gordon is losing the war Nearly 30 and rather moth eaten already, a poet whose one small book of verse has fallen flatter than any pancake, Gordon has given up a good job and gone to work in a bookshop at half his former salary Always broke, but too proud to accept charity, he rarely sees his few friends and cannot get the virginal Rosemary to bed because or so he believes , If you have no money women won t love you On the windowsill of Gordon s shabby rooming house room is a sickly but unkillable aspidistra a plant he abhors as the banner of the sort of mingy, lower middle class decency he is fleeing in his downward flight.In Keep the Aspidistra Flying, George Orwell has created a darkly compassionate satire to which anyone who has ever been oppressed by the lack of brass, or by the need to make it, will all too easily relate 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 Orwell keeps both of his edges sharp to the very end a happy ending that poses tough questions about just how happy it really is That the book itself is not sour, but constantly fresh and frequently funny, is the result of Orwell s steady, unsentimental attention to the telling detail his dry, quiet humor his fascination with both the follies and the excellences of his characters and his courageous refusal to embrace the comforts of any easy answer
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Eric Arthur Blair, better known by his pen name George Orwell, was an English author and journalist His work is marked by keen intelligence and wit, a profound awareness of social injustice, an intense opposition to totalitarianism, a passion for clarity in language, and a belief in democratic socialism.In addition to his literary career Orwell served as a a police officer with the Indian Imperia Eric Arthur Blair, better known by his pen name George Orwell, was an English author and journalist His work is marked by keen intelligence and wit, a profound awareness of social injustice, an intense opposition to totalitarianism, a passion for clarity in language, and a belief in democratic socialism.In addition to his literary career Orwell served as a a police officer with the Indian Imperial Police in Burma from 1922 1927 and fought with the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War from 1936 1937 Orwell was severely wounded when he was shot through his throat Later the organization that he had joined when he joined the Republican cause,The Workers Party of Marxist Unification POUM , was painted by the pro Soviet Communists as a Trotskyist organization Trotsky was Joseph Stalin s enemy and disbanded Orwell and his wife were accused of rabid Trotskyism and tried in absentia in Barcelona, along with other leaders of the POUM, in 1938 However by then they had escaped from Spain and returned to England Between 1941 and 1943, Orwell worked on propaganda for the BBC In 1943, he became literary editor of the Tribune, a weekly left wing magazine He was a prolific polemical journalist, article writer, literary critic, reviewer, poet and writer of fiction, and, considered perhaps the twentieth century s best chronicler of English culture Orwell is best known for the dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty Four published in 1949 and the satirical novella Animal Farm 1945 they have together sold copies than any two books by any other twentieth century author His 1938 book Homage to Catalonia, an account of his experiences as a volunteer on the Republican side during the Spanish Civil War, together with numerous essays on politics, literature, language, and culture, are widely acclaimed.Orwell s influence on contemporary culture, popular and political, continues decades after his death Several of his neologisms, along with the term Orwellian now a byword for any oppressive or manipulative social phenomenon opposed to a free society have entered the vernacular 
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London, 1936 Gordon Comstock has declared war on the money god and Gordon is losing the war Nearly 30 and rather moth eaten already, a poet whose one
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