Keep the Aspidistra FlyingA new edition of Orwell's end of tether third novel, introduced and annotated by his biographer, D. J. Taylor First published in 1936, and drawing on Orwell's own experiences of working in a Hampstead bookshop, Keep the Aspidistra Flying tracks the career of Gordon Comstock ('nearly 30 and moth eaten already'), a struggling poet who tries to rebel against the conventions of middle class English life, only to be drawn inexorably back into the world