Keep The Aspidistra Flying (1936 -2016/2026)

Keep The Aspidistra Flying (1936 -2016)

In April 2016 the Orwell Society sponsored a series of original articles to mark the 80th anniversary of George Orwell’s novel Keep The Aspidistra Flying.

Here is an index to the articles and their authors, available on this website.

• April 1936: The Publication
• Is Gordon Comstock’s World an Improvement on Gissing’s? by Loraine Saunders
• Getting Closer to the Original Text by Richard Young
• Keep the Aspidistra Flying in Hampstead by Lorcan Greene
• No Surrender To The Status Quo? Orwell’s Keep The Aspidistra Flying by M. G. Sherlock
• Orwell and the Booksellers by Douglas Kerr
• Comstock Footage: The Aspidistra On Film by David Ryan

2026

New in 2026:

• An Enduring, Uncomfortable Mirror by Réka Törzsök

Also:

• OS Journal 21 contains ‘Short-List and Curlies: Orwell and the 1936 Prix Femina-Vie Heureuse’ (for which Keep The Aspidistra Flying was in contention)