Unconditional Surrender

Evelyn Waugh

Guy Crouchback has lost his Halberdier idealism. A desk job in London gives him the chance of reconciliation with his former wife. Then, in Yugoslavia, as a liaison officer with the partisans, he finally becomes aware of the futility of a war he once saw in terms of honour....

Keep the Aspidistra Flying: Popular Penguins

George Orwell

A novel by the author of 1984 about a man determined to reject middle-class values who finds living in noble poverty more difficult than expected.   Gordon Comstock despises the materialism and shallowness of middle-class life--the worship of money, the striving for dull, stuffy respectability. To live ...