Search results
In Keep the Aspidistra Flying, Orwell depicts a peculiar intellectual named Gordon Constock, almost thirty and "already moth-eaten." The gist is that he refused his status and prospects of a "good job" in order to avoid being subservient to "the Money God" - that is, he lowers himself on the social scale, living in self-imposed penury, working ...
May 13, 2024 · 15 views 31 minutes ago. One of the great novels by George Orwell in a complete and unabridged format. In "Keep the Aspidistra Flying," George Orwell tells the story of Gordon Comstock, a...
- 687 min
- 3.7K
- neuralsurfer
4 days ago · To Subscribe to this channel, click on the Subscribe button above, or follow this link:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCguXRSyymB0hdN11aaxkIaw?sub_confirmat...
- 548 min
- Listening Books
Apr 29, 2024 · Keep the Aspidistra Flying (Robert Bierman, 1997) Nine years after the black comedy How to Get Ahead in Advertising , Richard E. Grant reprises playing a man working in advertising who suddenly becomes disillusioned with the point of it all and quits to try his luck at poetry.
2 days ago · 1936 – Keep the Aspidistra Flying; 1939 – Coming Up for Air; 1945 – Animal Farm; 1949 – Nineteen Eighty-Four; Nonfiction. 1933 – Down and Out in Paris and London; 1937 – The Road to Wigan Pier; 1938 – Homage to Catalonia; Notes
3 days ago · Although not enormous by any means, Coming Up for Air and Keep the Aspidistra Flying both conform to this description. However, as Orwell himself delineates, “Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism.”
6 days ago · Keep the Aspidistra Flying (1936) is about a literarily inclined bookseller’s assistant who despises the empty commercialism and materialism of middle-class life but who in the end is reconciled to bourgeois prosperity by his forced marriage to the girl he loves.
