"Madhubala" is a gripping story of middle class aspirations, values and desires, set against the backdrop of Bollywood.

But Hamid's novel, while it contains a few such moments, is distinguished by its portrayal of Changez's class aspirations and inner struggle.

This is also true of class aspirations.

These are a trove of social history revealing details of personalities, family relations and class aspirations, as well as the impact of world events on a well-connected and intelligent couple.

He called for recognition of middle class aspiration for wealth, home ownership and leisure opportunities, and warned against excessive emphasis on nationalisation.

I'll own up to a bit of naked class aspiration, but that wasn't the most important part.

Many of these people were hard working people with middle class aspirations, whose lives and careers were interrupted and often changed forever by the Second World War.

This was a neighborhood of blacks with middle class aspirations.

An Education - slightly overrated and actually not that rewarding, unless you are crashingly middle class or, perhaps more accurately, have crashingly middle class aspirations.

Thompson's re-evaluation of the Luddite movement, and his (unsympathetic) treatment of the influence of the early Methodist movement on working class aspirations are also particularly memorable.