Down and Out in Paris and London
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George Orwell's vivid memoir of his time living among the desperately poor and destitute, Down and Out in Paris and London, is a moving tour of the underworld of society. "You have talked so often of going to the dogs - and well, here are the dogs, and you have reached them." Written when Orwell was a struggling writer in his twenties, it documents his 'first contact with poverty'. Here, he painstakingly documents a world of unrelenting drudgery and squalor - sleeping in bug-infested hostels and doss houses of last resort, working as a dishwasher in Paris's vile 'Hotel X', surviving on scraps and cigarette butts, living alongside tramps, a star-gazing pavement artist, and a starving Russian ex-army captain. Exposing a shocking, previously-hidden world to his readers, Orwell gave a human face to the statistics of poverty for the first time - and in doing so, found his voice as a writer.
Author:
Author:Orwell George
Cover:
Cover:softcover
Category:
- Category:Biographies & Memoirs
- Category:Fiction
Dimensions:
Dimensions:18x11x1.4 cm
Series:
Series:Penguin Modern Classics
ISBN:
ISBN:9780141393032
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