Keep the Aspidistra Flying

Name: Keep the Aspidistra Flying
Brand: Blackstone Audiobooks
Availability: InStock
Author: George Orwell
ISBN: 9781455120918

Author: George Orwell

Narrator: Richard Brown

Unabridged: 9 hr 21 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Published: 01/17/2012

Categories: Fiction, Classic

Synopsis

Gordon Comstock is a poor young man who works by day in a grubby London bookstore and spends his evenings shivering in a rented room, trying to write. Gordon has published a slim volume of verse and is determined to keep free of the money world of safe, lucrative jobs, marriage, and family responsibilities. This world, to Gordon, spells the end of art and aspidistra, the homely, indestructible house plant that stands in every middleclass British window. Gordons sweetheart, Rosemary, understands him: she is patient with his pride and lack of funds. But then, as it happens with all lovers, events overtake them. Orwells picture of the money world, as Gordon sees it, is in his best satirical vein.

About George Orwell

Eric Arthur Blair (1903-1950), better known by his pen name George Orwell, was an English novelist, essayist, journalist, and critic. His work is marked by lucid prose, awareness of social injustice, opposition to totalitarianism, and outspoken support of democratic socialism. He is best known for the allegorical novella Animal Farm (1945) and the dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949). Orwell's work continues to influence popular and political culture, and the term Orwellian - descriptive of totalitarian or authoritarian social practices - has entered the language together with many of his neologisms, including Big Brother, Thought Police, newspeak, doublethink, and thoughtcrime.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Patricia on July 25, 2008

Dear George Orwell, It's not you, it's me. It had to happen, really, this bit of faultering in the crush I've had on you. Sure, I've known you for years, but as you know, I've been completely smitten with you since last summer when I read your first published novel, Down and Out in Paris and London.......more

Goodreads review by MJ on April 15, 2013

The reader’s response to Gordon Comstock’s behaviour will depend upon whether the reader has ever tried to live a “self-sufficient” life free from bourgeois respectability, or seriously pursued an artistic vocation with stubborn single-mindedness. Orwell’s novel is pretty one-track plot-wise—what ha......more

Goodreads review by Barry on July 10, 2014

I buddy read this book with my bestie, Ariel Bissett. We spent more time on Voxer than actually reading this novel most nights but in our defense we spent most of that time gushing about Orwell. I think this is my favorite Orwell. I knew that from the very first chapter and oh what a chapter that is.......more