Flying — Keep The Aspidistra

However, Gordon quickly learns that poverty isn't romantic; it's just exhausting. It makes him bitter, self-centered, and often cruel to his long-suffering girlfriend, Rosemary. What is an Aspidistra, Anyway?

Originally published in 1936, Keep the Aspidistra Flying is a bitingly satirical, often bleak, but deeply human look at the struggle to maintain one’s principles in a world that only respects the bottom line. The Plot: War on the Middle Class Keep the Aspidistra Flying

Long before George Orwell was warning us about Big Brother, he was writing about a much more mundane, yet equally suffocating, tyrant: . However, Gordon quickly learns that poverty isn't romantic;