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Keep the Aspidistra Flying (Harvest Book)
Keep the Aspidistra Flying - Harvest Book Author:George Orwell Gordon Comstock is a poor young man who works in a grubby London bookstore and spends his evenings shivering in a rented room, trying to write. He is determined to stay free of the “money world” of lucrative jobs, family responsibilities, and the kind of security symbolized by the homely aspidistra plant that sits in every middle-cla... more »ss British window.« less
Classic Orwell. I had a goal of reading all of his books and to my knowledge I managed it. My memory of the book is murky but I did like it at the time.