He discovers he has some 900 books and that it has cost him a little more than £11 per year. To prove that reading is not an expensive hobby out of the reach of ordinary citizens, Orwell counts all the books he owns (this sounds remarkably like what I have done in recent weeks, tackling my TBR piles) and adds up their total price to work out how much money he has spent on reading over a 15-year period. This particular essay, first published in the Tribune on 8 February 1946, will resonate with book lovers the world over, because how many of us have foregone some other pleasure (or necessity) in favour of a good book? The title of the book comes from an essay of the same name in which Orwell considers how much money he spends on his two vices, reading and smoking. cigarettes is a small collection of essays by George Orwell brought together as part of Penguin’s Great Ideas Series 3. Non-fiction – paperback Penguin 144 pages 2008.īooks v.
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