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790L
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English
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Gordon Comstock, poet and author, gives up a good job to become a part-time bookshop assistant, thereby gaining time to write. Despite some modest success, he embarks on a long slide into penury which results in a squalid existence. The symbol of everything he rebels against is the ugly aspdistra, which for him represent dull, lifeless respectability and submission to the tyranny of the "money-god."
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