Keep the Aspidistra Flying
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Keep the Aspidistra Flying
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Narrated by:
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Richard Brown
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By:
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George Orwell
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 middle-class British window.
Gordon’s 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.
Orwell’s picture of the “money world,” as Gordon sees it, is in his best satirical vein.
©1956 the Estate of Sonia B. Orwell (P)1992 Blackstone Audio, Inc.Reviews
“Gritty, growling, commonsensical and touching. [Orwell] never wrote a basically kinder or more human novel.”
(Time)“A remarkable novel...A summa of all the criticisms of a commercial civilization that have ever been made.”
(Lionel Trilling)“A delightful addition to the Orwell literature…A work Orwell enthusiasts will bracket with Down and Out in Paris and London.”
(San Francisco Chronicle)“Richard Brown reads in a clear voice and effectively captures the rhythms of the text.”
(Library Journal)