Novel on Yellow Paper - Stevie Smith

Title: Novel on Yellow Paper
Author: Stevie Smith
Publisher: Penguin Modern Classics
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 0 14 00 0859 4
Penguin Modern Classics edition, reissued 1972

Condition: Fair vintage condition with noticeable shelf wear, edge wear, creasing, rubbing, and staining/discolouration to the covers. Some waviness and age toning present. Binding remains intact and the text is readable throughout. Please see photos for the exact condition of the copy available.

Novel on Yellow Paper is the first novel by Stevie Smith, blending sharp humour, stream-of-consciousness narration, literary satire, and autobiography into one of the most unusual English novels of the twentieth century.

Originally published in 1936, the book follows Pompey Casmilus, a secretary in London whose wandering thoughts drift between office life, politics, religion, literature, sex, death, and modern society. The result is playful, melancholic, highly intelligent, and often surprisingly contemporary in tone.

Best known as a poet, Stevie Smith brought the same wit and emotional strangeness to her fiction. The novel moves freely between comedy and despair, mixing social observation with philosophical reflection and abrupt emotional honesty.