{"product_id":"keep-the-aspidistra-flying","title":"Keep the Aspidistra Flying","description":"A new edition of Orwell's end-of-tether third novel, introduced and annotated by his biographer, D.J. Taylor\n\nFirst 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 that grinds him down.\n\nThis new edition includes an introduction and extensive end-notes, and an appendix containing original responses to the novel as well as letters and documents from the period in which it was written.","brand":"Constable","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40594203017301,"sku":"9781472133106N","price":12.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2481\/5790\/products\/aa24fe74-49b1-47a3-9970-4519044d5014.jpg?v=1682333029","url":"https:\/\/smeikalbooks.co.uk\/en-us\/products\/keep-the-aspidistra-flying","provider":"smeikalbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}