George Orwell: Animal Farm. Keep the Aspidistra Flying.

English writer, critic, essayist, and journalist George Orwell (real name Eric Arthur Blair) went down in literary history primarily due to his final novel, "1984" (1948, pub. 1949), which, along with Yevgeny Zamyatin’s "We" and Aldous Huxley’s "Brave New World," became one of the defining dystopian books of the 20th century.
This collection includes the famous fable "Animal Farm" (1945), which depicts the course and further development of the Russian Revolution in a parody-satirical form (according to Orwell, this is a tragic, bitter story of betrayed revolutionary gains), as well as the novel "Keep the Aspidistra Flying" (1936), an ironic and sad narrative about how the failed poet Gordon Comstock declared war on the Money-god, refusing to live for money, social status, and other philistine values (symbolized by the aspidistra displayed on his windowsill), and the consequences thereof.

Author: George Orwell

Translator: Larisa Bespalova, Vera Domiteeva

Pages: 384 (newsprint). Paperback

Dimensions: 185x116x15 mm

Series: Azbuka-Klassika