#8320
Mentioned in 6 episodes

Keep the Aspidistra Flying

Book • 1997

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Mentioned in 6 episodes

Mentioned by Tabitha Syrett and
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Dominic Sandbrook
as part of Orwell’s pre-war fiction about individuals trapped by their times.
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Nineteen Eighty-Four: Dominic Sandbrook on Big Brother, Surveillance, and Fear (The Book Club)
Mentioned as a critique of class and capitalism in English life in Orwell's novels.
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George Orwell
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Dorian Lynskey
as a book by George Orwell.
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George Orwell Part 1 – From Eton to Barcelona
Mentioned as one of George Orwell's published novels that he later dismissed as thoroughly bad.
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757 George Orwell's 1984 (#6 Greatest Book of All Time)
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Wes Alwyn
as an Orwell novel that prompted reflection on wealth and money in relation to Hegelian themes.
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Ep. 389: Hegel on Wealth and Power (Part One)
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Will Kitchen
mentions he was impressed when he first read it, and was very keen to write something about it.
Will Kitchen, "Culture, Capital and Carnival: Modern Media and the Representation of Work" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
Mentioned as one of the two novels from the 1930s that Orwell particularly disliked and refused to have reprinted.
D. J. Taylor, "Orwell: The New Life" (Pegasus Books, 2023)

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