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Keep the Aspidistra Flying
- By: George Orwell
- Narrated by: Richard E. Grant
- Length: 9 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 219
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 196
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 192
Gordon 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.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Gordon's Grey World is Colored with Grant
- By Timothy on 09-25-11
- Keep the Aspidistra Flying
- By: George Orwell
- Narrated by: Richard E. Grant
Richard E Grant's narration is superb.
Reviewed: 09-20-22
It's a pleasure to listen to Grant's reading of this rather bleak novel. Excellent. Keep the Aspidistra Flying is of course essential Orwell and deserves to be read. Things essentially have not changed much since 1934 in terms of social problems. You will however want to reach out and shake the story's lead character, Gordon Comstock. The interesting thing is that, at the same time, you recognise that there is, perhaps, a bit of the Gordon Comstocks in all of us. For those times when you want to be reminded what life is and what choices we have.
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