Burmese Days, Keep the Aspidistra Flying, Coming Up for Air

George Orwell

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Everyman's Library
15 April 2011

Classic fiction (pre c 1945)

Series: Everyman’s Library Contemporary Classics

Three key novels from the 1930s by the author who later became world-famous for his political satires, Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four.

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 Airdramatizes 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.

By: George Orwell
Imprint: Everyman's Library
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 212mm, Width: 138mm, Spine: 37mm
Weight: 740g
ISBN: 9781841593357
ISBN 10: 1841593354
Series: Everyman’s Library Contemporary Classics
Pages: 712
Publication Date: 15 April 2011
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

George Orwell (1903-1950) is one of England's most famous writers and social commentators. He is the author of the classic political satire Animal Farm and the dystopian masterpiece Nineteen Eighty-Four. He is also well known for his essays and journalism, particularly his works covering his travels and his time fighting in the Spanish Civil War. His writing is celebrated for its piercing clarity, purpose and wit and his books continue to be bestsellers all over the world.

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Burmese Days, Keep the Aspidistra Flying, Coming Up for Air

George Orwell

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