Keep the Aspidistra Flying Classics Davis provides a dazzling update

Davis provides a dazzling update on the city’s current status

and watches the Age of Enlightenment pass by beneath him

the difficulty of intimacy and the mystery of creativity itself

George Bowling

Keep the Aspidistra Flying Classics Davis provides a dazzling updateGordon Comstock loathes dull, middle class respectability and worship of money. He gives up a 'good job' in advertising to work part time in a bookshop, giving him more time to write. But he slides instead into a self induced poverty that destroys his creativity and his spirit. Only Rosemary, ever faithful Rosemary, has the strength to challenge his commitment to his chosen way of life. Through the character of Gordon Comstock, Orwell reveals his own