Keep the Aspidistra Flying (Annotated)

Keep the Aspidistra Flying is a sharply satirical novel of lower-middle-class life in 1930s London, centered on Gordon Comstock, a failed poet who wages a futile private war against money, respectability, and the "Money-God." Written in lucid, unsentimental prose, the book blends social realism with dark comedy, exposing the humiliations of poverty and the spiritual compromises demanded by bourgeo...