Keep the Aspidistra Flying

Book • 1997

Mentioned by

Mentioned as a critique of class and capitalism in English life in Orwell's novels.

Mentioned by

Dorian Lynskey

as a book by George Orwell.

Mentioned as one of George Orwell's published novels that he later dismissed as thoroughly bad.

Will Kitchen

mentions he was impressed when he first read it, and was very keen to write something about it.

Mentioned by

Will Kitchen

as a less well-known work by George Orwell.

Mentioned as one of the two novels from the 1930s that Orwell particularly disliked and refused to have reprinted.

Mentioned by

Will Kitchen

as a less well-known book by Orwell.

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