First published: Fortnightly. — GB, London. — November 1936.
George Orwell on bookselling—its peculiarities and characters—the rarity of really bookish people and how he lost the taste for books. Read it; it's short, and it’s a very good and rather humorous essay, with lines like: “…the top of a book is the place where every bluebottle prefers to die.”
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