Animal Farm & Keep the Aspidistra Flying

Both the books Animal Farm & Keep the Aspidistra Flying are written by English essayist journalist and critic George Orwell. Animal Farm is an allegorical novella by George Orwell first published in England on 17 August 1945. The book tells the story of a group of farm animals who rebel against their human farmer hoping to create a society where the animals can be equal free and happy. Keep the Aspidistra Flying first published in 1936 is a socially critical novel by George Orwell. It is set in 1930s London. The main theme is Gordon Comstocks romantic ambition to defy worship of the money-god and status and the dismal life that results. He etches the ugly insanity of what Gordon calls the money-world in unflinching detail but the satire has a second edge too and Gordon himself is scarcely heroic. In the course of his misadventures we become grindingly aware that his radical solution to the problem of the money-world is no solution at all--that in his desperate reaction against a monstrous system he has become something of a monster himself.