Keep the Aspidistra Flying

Keep the Aspidistra Flying
First edition
AuthorGeorge Orwell
LanguageEnglish
GenreNovel, social criticism
Set inLondon, 1934
PublisherVictor Gollancz Ltd
Publication date
20 April 1936
Publication placeUnited Kingdom
Media typePrint (hardback)
Pages318 (hardback)
248 (paperback)
OCLC1199526
823/.912 21
LC ClassPR6029.R8 K44 1999
Preceded byA Clergyman's Daughter 
Followed byThe Road to Wigan Pier 
Book cover of a Penguin Books edition.

Keep the Aspidistra Flying, first published in 1936, is a socially critical novel by George Orwell set in 1930s London. The main theme is Gordon Comstock's romantic ambition to defy worship of the money-god and status, and the dismal life that results.