![]() Our shop had an exceptionally interesting stock, yet I doubt whether ten per cent of our customers knew a good book from a bad one. ![]() They were not, he wrote, as many people supposed, ‘charming old gentlemen browsing eternally among calf-bound folios’ - and really bookish people were a rarity. In an essay, ‘Bookshop Memories’, published in 1936, he listed a veritable catalogue of miseries the job entailed, especially having to deal with the kind of customers the shop attracted. Writing about this experience, Orwell always portrayed it as a wretched one. The shop is long gone but a plaque commemorating the association now marks the spot. Eric Blair, 1903) probably know that for over a year in the mid-1930s, he worked in a Hampstead bookshop - Booklovers’ Corner, at the junction of Pond Street and South End Green. Readers familiar with the life of George Orwell (b. ![]() ![]() Home / Orwell / Articles / Gordon Bowker: Orwell’s Library Gordon Bowker: Orwell’s Library ![]()
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