Keep the Aspidistra Flying (Harvest Book)

“Somebody or other had said that the modern world is only habitable by saints and scoundrels. He, Gordon, wasn’t a saint. Better, then, to be an unpretending scoundrel along with others” Most of the time there is a huge distance between our ideals and reality. It is beautiful to be idealistic, to look for utopia and to find Shangri-La. But I think that we should be as frank as to...more

“Somebody or other had said that the modern world is only habitable by saints and scoundrels. He, Gordon, wasn’t a saint. Better, then, to be an unpretending scoundrel along with others” Most of the time there is a huge distance between our ideals and reality. It is beautiful to be idealistic, to look for utopia and to find Shangri-La. But I think that we should be as frank as to accept that, there are some awful but undeniable facts in our world such as power, greed, jealousy, money, and etc which we are not able to eliminate them and we will not have a Garden of Eden with them. So maybe the only practical way is to KEEP THE ASPIDISTRA FLYING.   hide

Grim and forgettable.

One of his finest novels. George Orwell takes aim at middle class morality and mores!!

challenging, funny and wonderful