He combined reporting with a tone of anger that was to characterize his subsequent writing. In The Road to Wigan Pier (1937), Orwell returned to writing about the destitute and unemployed. His only comfort is that many of the books in the store, even the classics, are neglected and decaying. Orwell would follow this formula in his subsequent work, including A Clergyman’s Daughter (1935) and Keep the Aspidistra Flying (1936). They remind him not only of his failed book, but also that he has been working on a new poetry book, London Pleasures, for years and still has not finished: “For here was he, supposedly a ‘writer,’ and he couldn’t even write!” (8-9). He feels only contempt for all the novels in the book collection. Gordon surveys the novels in the store’s lending library and bitterly thinks about his own book, a poetry collection titled Mice, which sold poorly.
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