Hunger and Love by Lionel Britton. With an Introduction by Bertrand Russell (HQ797)

Published 1931: First Edition / Hardcover / Very Good Condition

Original green cloth with white titles on the cover and spine. 705 very clean and bright pages, a lot of pages still uncut from original print indicating it never been read, small tear on page 273. Boards slightly rubbed with time and bumped on the corners consistent with age but remain firm and intact. A very scarce original first edition. (HQ797)

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Proletarian novel set in a bookshop on the Charing Cross Road, London.

The author's only novel, but a weighty contribution to the genre (proletarian)- the narrative of a bookseller's assistant who finds himself at odds with the world is partly autobiographical, and certainly deeply felt in its narrativising of his socialist beliefs. Its underlying philosophy draws praise from Bertrand Russell (who had earlier praised Britton's play 'Brain') in terms of its value as truth, but assessing it in literary terms George Orwell was more dismissive - complaining in his review that it 'tells the truth about life, but make[s] no attempt to be readable'. Google Books...