Keep the Aspidistra Flying
Children of clergy
Belief and doubt
Booksellers and bookselling
Middle class
Amnesia
Young men
Authors
Poverty
British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author)
Fathers and daughters
Young women
Clergy
English literature
Literature
Fiction, general
Social life and customs
Fiction
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-f…
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