Keep the Aspidistra Flying

✍ Orwell, George 📂 Fiction 📅 2000 🏛 Penguin Books Ltd 🌐 English ⚖ 245 KB

Gordon Comstock loathes dull, middle-class respectability and worship of money. He gives up a 'good job' in advertising to work part-time in a bookshop, giving him more time to write. But he slides instead into a self-induced poverty that destroys his creativity and his spirit. Only Rosemary, ever-f

Keep the aspidistra flying

✍ Orwell, George 📂 Fiction 📅 0 🌐 English ⚖ 152 KB

Keep the Aspidistra Flying

✍ Orwell, George 📂 Fiction 🌐 English ⚖ 159 KB

Keep the Aspidistra Flying

✍ George Orwell 📂 Fiction 📅 1936;2000 🏛 Penguin Books Ltd 🌐 English ⚖ 169 KB

London, 1936. Gordon Comstock has declared war on the money god; and Gordon is losing the war. Nearly 30 and "rather moth-eaten already," a poet whose one small book of verse has fallen "flatter than any pancake," Gordon has given up a "good" job and gone to work in a bookshop at half his former sal

Keep the Aspidistra Flying

✍ Orwell, George 📂 Fiction 📅 1989 🏛 Penguin Books Ltd 🌐 English ⚖ 245 KB

Gordon Comstock loathes dull, middle-class respectability and worship of money. He gives up a 'good job' in advertising to work part-time in a bookshop, giving him more time to write. But he slides instead into a self-induced poverty that destroys his creativity and his spirit. Only Rosemary, ever-f

Keep the Aspidistra Flying

📂 Standards 🏛 Penguin 🌐 English ⚖ 1 MB

Gordon Comstock loathes dull, middle-class respectability and worship of money. He gives up a 'good job' in advertising to work part-time in a bookshop, giving him more time to write. But he slides instead into a self-induced poverty that destroys his creativity and his spirit. Only Rosemary, ever-f