
	Where results make sense

Topic: Keep the Aspidistra Flying

Related Topics

Aspidistra

Coming Up for Air

Fight Club (film)

Down and Out in Paris and London

Martin Scorcese

George Orwell

Cyril Connolly

Bonnie Tyler

Luas

Mick Ronson

Burmese Days

Helena Bonham Carter

Sufi whirling

Shooting an Elephant

Independent Labour Party

	Book group: Orwell's Keep the Aspidistra Flying \| By genre \| Guardian Unlimited Books
		Keep the Aspidistra Flying, George Orwell's third novel published in 1936, is a savagely satirical portrait of the literary life.
		The aspidistra of the book's title comes from the pot plants to be found on every window sill which, for Comstock, symbolise all that is wrong with the "mingy, lower-class decency" he is desperate to escape.
		Orwell refused to allow either Keep the Aspidistra Flying or his first novel, the considerably weaker A Clergyman's Daughter, to be reprinted in his lifetime.
	books.guardian.co.uk /departments/classics/story/0,6000,992193,00.html (875 words)

	Keep the Aspidistra Flying - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Keep the Aspidistra Flying (first published 1936) is a novel by George Orwell.
		Keep the Aspidistra Flying was filmed in 1997 (released in the USA under the alternative title of A Merry War) by Robert Bierman based on a screenplay by Alan Plater and starring Richard E. Grant and Helena Bonham Carter.
		The book's namesake, the aspidistra (a spiny houseplant) that at the time was widely considered a symbol of dull middle-class British taste, and seems to follow Gordon throughout the novel, and the aspidistra in his apartment which he tries to kill never does die - it becomes indestructible.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Keep_the_Aspidistra_Flying (531 words)

	George Orwell: 'Keep the Aspidistra Flying'
		He sat down with his back to the fireplace (there was an aspidistra in the grate instead of a fire) and ate his plate of cold beef and his two slices of crumbly white bread, with Canadian butter, mousetrap cheese and Pan Yan pickle, and drank a glass of cold but musty water.
		There in her miserable little semi-detached house in Highgate — Briarbrae, its name was — there in her palace in the northern mountains, there dwelleth she, Angela the Ever-virgin, of whom no man either living or among the shades can say truly that upon her lips he hath pressed the dear caresses of a lover.
		All alone she dwelleth, and all day long she fareth to and fro, and in her hand is the feather-mop fashioned from the tail feathers of the contumacious turkey, and with it she polisheth the dark-leaved aspidistras and flicketh the hated dust from the resplendent never-to-be-used Crown Derby china tea-service.
	www.orwell.ru /library/novels/Keep_the_Aspidistra_Flying/english/e_ktaf (21022 words)

	Keep the Aspidistra Flying
		An aspidistra is a spiny houseplant[?] that at the time was widely considered a symbol of dull middle-class British taste.
		Keep the Aspidistra Flying was filmed in 1997 by Robert Bierman[?] based on a screenplay by Alan Plater[?] and starring Richard E. Grant[?] and Helena Bonham Carter.
		The text of this article is licensed under the GFDL.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ke/Keep_the_Aspidistra_Flying.html (114 words)

	Keep the Aspidistra Flying (Harvest Book), Harvest/HBJ Book, George Orwell
		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.
		In Aspidistra, we have a main character-Gordon Comstock-who seems to accept this as a given, and supposes that, when this kind of poverty is a choice, one can break free of the trappings of the capitalistic burden.
		In all three of these, as in Aspidistra, we have a character so obsessed with an abstract notion that he lets it rule his life and destroy the lives of others.
	allentech.net /bookstore/item_0156468999.html (1710 words)

	Amazon.com: Keep the Aspidistra Flying (Harvest Book): Books: George Orwell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		"Keep the Aspidistra Flying" one of the most starange titles you ever see, is about a "poet" (and formerly a copywriter for advertizing company) Gordon Comstock, who, with sudden desire to be free from the curse of money, left this good job and starts the life of an aspiring artist.
		Keep the Aspidistra Flying is a slow book, without the sort inventive thrill that I associate with Animal Farm, 1984, or even Down And Out.
		The aspidistra, a simple houseplant, symbolizes middle-class respectabilty and is used throughout the book as a point of reference for Gordon's distain of the money-culture.
	www.amazon.com /Keep-Aspidistra-Flying-Harvest-Book/dp/0156468999 (2399 words)

	Keep the Aspidistra Flying (Harvest Book)
		And out of decency they both decide to marry and paradoxically in his terms ' keep the apidistra ' flying or keep the ordinary world of domestic civilized life going'.
		The best of George Orwell's lesser known novels is undoubtedly Keep the Aspidistra Flying, a riotous look at an intelligent and capable young man who is determined at all costs to avoid success.
		Keep the Aspidistra Flying is a slow book, without the sort inventive thrill that I associate with Animal Farm, 1984, or even Down And Out.
	www.literacyconnections.com /0_0156468999.html (743 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: Keep the Aspidistra Flying (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The simple Aspidistra, a potted plant, is Gordon's symbol of the middle class value system he detested.
		And KEEP THE ASPIDISTRA FLYING came across as a chronicle of leftist one-upmanship: the - I'm more working class than you are - attitude, by living shoulder to shoulder with the poor, then leaving when bored.
		KEEP THE ASPIDISTRA FLYING is more of a socialist polemic than an original story with a moral.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0156468999 (1300 words)

	Filmnight.com \| Buy Keep The Aspidistra Flying on DVD with Free Delivery (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		He decides to leave his middle class job to become a poet while she works hard to keep her career and their unusual relationship on track.
		Comstock, however, is desperate to escape that symbol of middle class respectability - the Aspidistra.
		He decides to leave his middle class job to become a poet while she works hard to keep her career and their unusual relationship on track.
	www.filmnight.com /drama/keep_the_aspidistra_flying92570.htm (225 words)

	Keep the Aspidistra Flying (1997) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		from Saffron Walden, UK George Orwell wrote 'Keep the Aspidistra Flying' based in part on his own experiences as a young writer, with himself as the object of the satire.
		The setting may be 80 years ago, but director never allows his film to wallow in nostalgia, keeping it fresh instead of overplaying superficial differences from our own era (though the final use of a modern song over the final credits grates).
		What's a bit more disappointing is the complete absence of politics in the story, odd given Orwell's own passionate commitment; the film's conclusion could be summarised as "if you're middle class, stop worrying and enjoy it", which is not a sentiment I can imagine Orwell endorsing.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0119453 (394 words)

	Keep the Aspidistra Flying -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Keep the Aspidistra Flying -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
		Keep the Aspidistra Flying (first published 1936) is a (A extended fictional work in prose; usually in the form of a story) novel by (Imaginative British writer concerned with social justice (1903-1950)) George Orwell.
		It is set in (The decade from 1930 to 1939) 1930s (The capital and largest city of England; located on the Thames in southeastern England; financial and industrial and cultural center) London and the surrounding countryside.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/K/Ke/Keep_the_Aspidistra_Flying.htm (450 words)

	Keep the Aspidistra Flying (Harvest Book) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Keep the Aspidistra Flying (Harvest Book) Review: The hero of this work, the young would- be poet Gordon Comstock rejects the money world and money civilization he believes himself subject to.
		Keep the Aspidistra Flying (Harvest Book) Review: To the reviewer who claimed this bit of "capitolism bashing" [sic] is not worth half the status of 1984:
		Keep the Aspidistra Flying (Harvest Book) Review: This bit of capitolism bashing is not a bad novel, but if "1984" is worth five stars (and we all know it is) then this amusing, if somewhat forgetable, narrative can not be given half its status.
	www.textkit.com /0_0156468999.html (947 words)

	Salon Entertainment \| How to get behind in advertising
		His 1936 novel "Keep the Aspidistra Flying" is a compassionate satire that hovers right on the edge of tragedy.
		Orwell wasn't a natural novelist, and in "Keep the Aspidistra Flying" he was working out an idea as surely as he was in his essays.
		He and Plater recognize that "Keep the Aspidistra Flying" is a comedy, but everything has been broadened and, in the process, flattened.
	www.salon.com /ent/movies/reviews/1998/09/18reviewb.html (822 words)

	George Orwell - Wikiquote
		I gathered that in that dreadful pigsty, struggling to keep her large brood of children clean, she felt as I should feel if I were coated all over with dung.
		In principle the war effort is always planned to keep society on the brink of starvation.
		The war is waged by the ruling group against its own subjects and its object is not the victory over either Eurasia or East Asia but to keep the very structure of society intact.
	en.wikiquote.org /wiki/Keep_the_Aspidistra_Flying (3817 words)

	The REG Temple - Filmography
		Keep The Aspidistra Flying - a.k.a Comstock And Rosemary a.k.a.
		A Merry War is based on a novel by George Orwell, and the title refers to a line in the book that describes the dynamic between Rosemary and Comstock.
		Keep The Aspidistra Flying - aka Comstock And Rosemary (1997) aka A Merry War (1998) (USA)
	www.richard-e-grant.com /Filmography/KeepAspidistraFlying.html (208 words)

	BookkooB: Keep the Aspidistra Flying - George Orwell
		Above you will see a list of UK book stores, along with their stock and price details for Keep the Aspidistra Flying: Complete and Unabridged by George Orwell.
		Having said all that, Aspidistra is still a great book as it's well-written and very gripping in its way.
		"There will never be a revolution in England while the aspidistras are flying." Still, it's nice to have a literary reference for a plant which, up until now, for me was known only as the first and finest incarnation of Uncle in The Adventure Game.
	www.bookkoob.co.uk /book/0754001148.htm (2159 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		In the half-darkness, with aspidistras all about you, you had the feeling of being in some sunless aquarium amid the dreary foliage of water-flowers.
		He sat down with his back to the fireplace (there was an aspidistra in the grate instead of a fire) and ate his plate of cold beef and his two slices of crumbly white bread, with Canadian butter, mousetrap cheese and Pan Yan pickle, and drank a glass of cold but musty water.
		All alone she dwelleth, and all day long she fareth to and fro, and in her hand is the feather-mop fashioned from the tail feathers of the contumacious turkey, and with it she polisheth the dark-leaved aspidistras and flicketh the hated dust from the resplendent never- to-be-used Crown Derby china tea-service.
	gutenberg.net.au /ebooks02/0200021.txt (22114 words)

	Reader Aspidistra Song
		When ORWELL was writing his book "Keep the Aspidistra Flying" with its recurring theme of the aspidistra plant in all English homes at this period in history he was most likely greatly influenced by the most popular hit song of the time entitled "The Biggest Aspidistra in the World".
		Yes, I've heard Gracie Fields singing "The Biggest Aspidistra in the World" as recently as a couple of weeks ago when I was driving in my car and they played it over the radio in relation to V-E Day celebrations in England.
		Aspidistra, King's Standing, East Sussex (This site was originally home to a high-power (600 kW) medium wave broadcasting transmitter, built for the Political Warfare Executive in WWII.
	www.orwelltoday.com /readeraspidistrasong.shtml (732 words)

	For George Orwell the 'Apidistra' smybolised everything that he attempted to reject in his world (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Aspidistra was a plant that many young English couples would have bought in the 1930's, perhaps to place on their window sill to suggest their 'respectability' and the fact that they have a good job, house, a family, a future, but most of all, 'success'.
		For George Orwell (Gordon Comstock), the Aspidistra symbolised dull, lifeless respectability and submission to the 'money-god' and he chose the Aspidistra to highlight his own disaffection with his society.
		The irony is clear...Gordon submits, unwillingly, to the life he so much tried to reject and this is the reason he calls the book 'Keep the Aspidistra Flying' instead of, for example, 'Don't keep the Aspidistra Flying'.
	members.tripod.com /george_orwell3/APIDISTRA.htm (283 words)

	Keep the Aspidistra Flying - George Orwell - Printed Books Shopping at dooyoo.co.uk
		Gordon Comstock finds that abandoning his promising career as a copywriter for the life of a poet is not quite as fulfilling as he had hoped.
		Keep the Aspidistra Flying - George Orwell : Funny and relevant
		Keep the Aspidistra Flying - George Orwell : the evils of capitalism
	www.dooyoo.co.uk /printed-books/keep-the-aspidistra-flying-george-orwell (295 words)

	'A Merry War': Orwell Lite
		A Merry War, which opens the Florida Film Festival, is a light and puzzling comedy adapted from the 1936 George Orwell novel entitled Keep the Aspidistra Flying.
		Comstock experiences a series of misadventures that bring him in contact with the upper-class and the working class, and at odds with "the money god." Throughout he is haunted by that most middle-class of houseplants, the aspidistra, as well as an ad campaign for "Bovex" on which he and Rosemary collaborated.
		We lead very exciting lives, something like jet-setters, except that we rarely travel, don't go out much and both prefer to read or watch films (although Erik also likes professional wrestling, which he continually refers to as our country's second great art form, after jazz).
	www.theslant.com /arts_media/articles/merry_war.html (544 words)

	Reader Aspidistra & Philanthropist
		No doubt Tressell WAS an influence on Orwell, what with his connection to the aspidistra and all.
		Orwell seemed to have a love-hate relationship with the aspidistra plant.
		And here's the love part, taken from the closing paragraphs of "Keep the Aspidistra Flying", after Gordon and his pregnant girlfriend Rosemary have recently gotten married and are having their first cup of tea in their new flat.
	www.orwelltoday.com /readeraspidistra.shtml (574 words)

	Related Website - Keep the Aspidistra Flying (1997) - Advocate*Weekly Newspapers \| Summertimes 1998 - Flying ...
		Keep the Aspidistra Flying (1997) - Advocate*Weekly Newspapers
		Orwell book from which it is adapted, Keep the Aspidistra Flying.
		He and Plater recognize that "Keep the Aspidistra Flying" is a comedy, but everything has been br...
	rotteneggs.com /r/show/se/508933.html (217 words)

	Keep the Aspidistra Flying Summary
		Keep the Aspidistra Flying (first published 1936) is a novel by George Orwell.
		Keep the Aspidistra Flying was filmed in 1997 (released in the USA under the alternative title of A Merry War) by Ro...
		Critical essay about happiness in Keep The Aspidistra Flying by George Orwell.
	www.bookrags.com /Keep_the_Aspidistra_Flying (117 words)

	Keep the Aspidistra Flying by George Orwell (5), Terebess Asia Online (TAO)
		He was still keeping his old-clothes shop going by means of a deputy, and intended to return to it as soon as he could get a good offer for the bookshop.
		The aspidistra had died a week ago and was withering upright in its pot.
		The aspidistra, it turned out, had not died after all; the withered leaves had dropped off it, but it was putting forth a couple of dull green shoots near its base.
	terebess.hu /english/orwell/aspifly5.html (13537 words)

	Keep the Aspidistra Flying by George Orwell, 0140016988, Lowest Book Price Finder
		This book is dull from beginning to end, and you really get a sense of how down and out the protagonist is, as you get the same feeling of hopelessness just from reading it.
		Don't do what I did and read "Keep the Aspidistra Flying" directly before or after "Down and out in Paris and London", also by Orwell.
		Despite my negative opinion so far, I felt the book was worth a read as it did point out some aspects of life that ring true, as is common in Orwell's novels.
	www.bookfinder4u.co.uk /book_detail/0140016988 (210 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)