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Sir John Rees, 1st Baronet
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Sir John David Rees, 1st Baronet, was a colonial administrator in British India, and subsequently a Member of Parliament at Westminster.
Sir John Rees, 1st Baronet
"Montgomery District" Rees as caricatured by Spy (Leslie Ward) in Vanity Fair, February 1907
"Montgomery District" Rees as caricatured by Spy (Leslie Ward) in Vanity Fair, February 1907
Keep the Aspidistra Flying
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Keep the Aspidistra Flying, first published in 1936, is a socially critical novel by George Orwell. It is Orwell's third novel and fourth book. The novel is set in 1930s London. The main theme is Gord
First edition
First edition
Two aspidistra plants – "The types he saw all round him, especially the older men, made him squirm. That was what it meant to worship the money-god! T
Two aspidistra plants – "The types he saw all round him, especially the older men, made him squirm. That was what it meant to worship the money-god! To settle down, to Make Good, to sell your soul for a villa and an aspidistra! To turn into the typical bowler-hatted sneak – Strube's 'little man' [–] What a fate!" (Ch. III)