Bookshop Memories

تأليف : George Orwell

النوعية : الفكر والثقافة العامة

Bookshop Memories by George Orwell.. Collected Essays, by George Orwell BOOKSHOP MEMORIES (1936) When I worked in a second-hand bookshop — so easily pictured, if you don't work in one, as a kind of paradise where charming old gentlemen browse eternally among calf-bound folios — the thing that chiefly struck me was the rarity of really bookish people. 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. First edition snobs were much commoner than lovers of literature, but oriental students haggling over cheap textbooks were commoner still, and vague-minded women looking for birthday presents for their nephews were commonest of all. 

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