orwell george keep the aspidistra flying
Orwell George Keep the Aspidistra Flying
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.
2346 Руб.
Orwell George Keep the Aspidistra Flying
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.
2346 Руб.
Orwell George Keep the Aspidistra Flying
Gordon Comstock is a man in thrall to his principles. He believes that money lies at the heart of all society's evils, so he decides to trade in his well-paid job at an advertising agency for the humble wages of a bookshop assistant. As poverty strikes, he finds that it infects every element of his life. His poetry lies neglected, his relationships with his friend Ravelston and his girlfriend Rosemary suffer, and bitterness threatens to overwhelm him. Drawn from Orwell's own experiences, Keep the Aspidistra Flying exposes the dangers of capitalist society in a narrative that ranges from the tragic to the satirical. Lyrically written and darkly humorous, it is a masterpiece of fiction that remains as relevant today as when it was first written.
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Orwell George Keep the Aspidistra Flying
Despite hailing from a comfortable family background, budding poet Gordon Comstock decides to declare war on money and all the middle-class trappings that wealth can buy. Working in a small bookshop and living in a bedsit in London, he dreams of completing an ambitious poem in rhyme royal and devoting his life to literature. But when poverty begins to damage his self-esteem and taint his worldview, and his romantic and professional lives start falling apart, will Gordon be able to uphold his anti-money principles, or will he succumb to the lure of lucre and everything he stands against? First published in 1936, Keep the Aspidistra Flying is the author's third novel, and one of his most outspoken works of social criticism. Partly autobiographical, it sits alongside Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four as a reminder of Orwell's lucid narrative style and his abilities as a politically and socially engaged writer. This edition is enriched by an extensive critical apparatus, almost 300 notes and extra reading material.
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Orwell George Burmese Days, Keep the Aspidistra Flying, Coming Up for Air
George Orwell was a novelist unlike any other, fiercely devoted to presenting the truth as he saw it. The three novels in this collection date from the 1930s, before his political satires Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four made him world-famous. Compelling works in their own right, they are all studies of men at odds with their surroundings. In Burmese Days, the darkest of the three, a frustrated expatriate finds himself trapped between the decadence of his own people and the corruption of the natives they claim to rule. Coming Up for Air dramatizes the frustration of every little man in his hopeless struggle against bourgeois respectability. Keep the Aspidistra Flying is a sort of comedy in which minor poet Gordon Comstock engages briefly with romantic dreams before realizing that salvation is to be found, not in escape from his life but engagement with it.
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Keep the Aspidistra Flying
"Да будет фикус" - третий роман Джорджа Оруэлла, опубликованный в 1936 году, который представляет собой жестокую сатиру на литературную жизнь 30-х годов прошлого столетия. Оруэлл изображает Гордона Комстока, молодого человека, обладающего небольшим писательским талантом, который бросает успешную работу в рекламной компании, чтобы стать поэтом-неудачником, подрабатывающим в разоряющемся книжном магазине и погружающимся в благородную нищету. Неадаптированное издание на английском языке.
648 Руб.
Оруэлл Джордж Keep the Aspidistra Flying
"Да будет фикус" - третий роман Джорджа Оруэлла, опубликованный в 1936 году, который представляет собой жестокую сатиру на литературную жизнь 30-х годов прошлого столетия. Оруэлл изображает Гордона Комстока, молодого человека, обладающего небольшим писательским талантом, который бросает успешную работу в рекламной компании, чтобы стать поэтом-неудачником, подрабатывающим в разоряющемся книжном магазине и погружающимся в благородную нищету. Неадаптированное издание на английском языке.
648 Руб.
Оруэлл Джордж Keep the Aspidistra Flying
"Да будет фикус" - третий роман Джорджа Оруэлла, опубликованный в 1936 году, который представляет собой жестокую сатиру на литературную жизнь 30-х годов прошлого столетия. Оруэлл изображает Гордона Комстока, молодого человека, обладающего небольшим писательским талантом, который бросает успешную работу в рекламной компании, чтобы стать поэтом-неудачником, подрабатывающим в разоряющемся книжном магазине и погружающимся в благородную нищету. Неадаптированное издание на английском языке.
648 Руб.
Orwell G. Homage to Catalonia
In 1936 George Orwell travelled to Spain to report on the Civil War and instead joined the fight against the Fascists. This famous account describes the war and Orwell?s own experiences. Introduction by Lionel Trilling.
291 Руб.
Orwell G. Homage to Catalonia
In 1936 George Orwell travelled to Spain to report on the Civil War and instead joined the fight against the Fascists. This famous account describes the war and Orwell?s own experiences. Introduction by Lionel Trilling.
291 Руб.
Orwell George The Classic George Orwell Collection
This covetable five-volume boxset brings together selected works from one of the most acclaimed writers of the 20th century, George Orwell. Best known for his chilling dystopia Nineteen-Eighty Four and the disturbing parable of Animal Farm , Orwell also turned his attention to subjects as wide-ranging as life amidst abject poverty, the strictures of a religious upbringing, the perils of British imperialism, the loss of innocence and the disillusionment of middle age. He centered his works on the characters involved and his pen captured the hopes and struggles of ordinary people as they attempted to live their lives. These collectible paperback editions feature striking contemporary cover-designs and fit perfectly into a decorative slipcase. Together they make a wonderful gift for any literature lover. Includes: - 1984 - Animal Farm - The Road to Wigan Pier - Down and Out in London and Paris
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Orwell George The Orwell Diaries
George Orwell was an inveterate keeper of diaries. The Orwell Diaries presents eleven of them, covering the period 1931-1949, and follows Orwell from his early years as a writer to his last literary notebook. An entry from 1931 tells of a communal shave in the Trafalgar Square fountains, while notes from his travels through industrial England show the development of the impassioned social commentator. This same acute power of observation is evident in his diaries from Morocco, as well as at home, where his domestic diaries chart the progress of his garden and animals with a keen eye; the wartime diaries, from descriptions of events overseas to the daily violence closer to home, describe astutely his perspective on the politics of both, and provide a new and entirely refreshing insight into Orwell's character and his great works.
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Orwell George Orwell and the Dispossessed
The powerful writings collected together in this volume chronicle George Orwell's first-hand experiences of life among the underclass of the 'two nations' of rich and poor. Down and Out in Paris and London is the young Orwell's memoir of his time as a struggling, often penniless writer, living among the destitute and dispossessed, in which he exposes what 'going to the dogs' is really like. There are also articles and letters on sleeping rough in Trafalgar Square, being arrested for drunkenness, on the poverty Orwell witnessed in Morocco and India, and his shocking essay, 'How the Poor Die'.
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Maugham William Somerset Short Stories
The definitive selection of Maugham's best short stories - gorgeously rejacketed in our new series style "The modern writer who has influenced me the most." - George Orwell "One of my favourite writers." - Gabriel Garcia Marquez "A writer of great dedication." - Graham Greene
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Orwell George The Essays
Includes 'The Freedom of the Press', intended as the preface to 'Animal Farm' but undiscovered until 1972. Considered by Noam Chomsky to be Orwell's most important essay. These essays demonstsrate the life and work of one of the most individual writers of the last century.
9870 Руб.
Williams Raymond Culture and Society
Acknowledged as a masterpiece of materialist criticism, this book delves into the complex ways economic reality shapes the imagination. Surveying two hundred years of history and English literature – from George Eliot to George Orwell – Williams provides insights into the social and economic forces that have shaped British culture and society. Provocative and revolutionary in its day, this work overturned conventional thinking about the development of a common British mentality.
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