A poor young Londoner who disdains conventional lifestyles and goals works by day in a bookstore and writes by night in a cold rented room
Orwell's satiric autobiographical novel is about a young bookstore clerk with outsized literary aspirations, and his subsequent humiliation.
- Genre: Fiction + Literature Themes, Fiction + Literature Genres
- Subgenre: Classics, Conflicts + Dualities, Love + Relationships + Sex, Literary Genres + Types of Novels, Work + the Workplace, Human Qualities + Behavior, Types of Characters
- Publisher: Mariner Books
- Language: English
- Format: paperback
- Release Date: March 19, 1969
- Date Published: March 19, 1969
- Author: George Orwell