George Orwell: Keep the Aspidistra Flying
Keep the Aspidistra Flying
Buch
- Penguin Books Ltd (UK), 01/2014
- Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert, ,
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-13: 9780141395470
- Bestellnummer: 3938534
- Umfang: 275 Seiten
- Copyright-Jahr: 2014
- Gewicht: 171 g
- Maße: 180 x 111 mm
- Stärke: 25 mm
- Erscheinungstermin: 2.1.2014
- Serie: Penguin Modern Classics
Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
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Kurzbeschreibung
Gordon Comstock loathes dull, middle-class respectability and worship of money. He gives up a good job to work part-time in a bookshop, giving him more time to write. But he slides instead into a self-induced poverty that destroys his creativity and his spirit. Only Rosemary, has the strength to challenge his commitment to his chosen way of life.Klappentext
Gordon Comstock loathes dull, middle-class respectability and worship of money. He gives up a 'good job' in advertising to work part-time in a bookshop, giving him more time to write. But he slides instead into a self-induced poverty that destroys his creativity and his spirit. Only Rosemary, ever-faithful Rosemary, has the strength to challenge his commitment to his chosen way of life. Through the character of Gordon Comstock, Orwell reveals his own disaffection with the society he once himself renounced.Enlivened with vivid autobiographical detail, George Orwell's Keep the Aspidistra Flying is a tragically witty account of the struggle to escape from a materialistic existence, with an introduction by Peter Davison in Penguin Modern Classics.