Down And Out In Paris And London

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SKU: 
9780141184388
Author: 
George Orwell
Publisher: 
Penguin Classics

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 'Hôtel 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.

SKU: 9780141184388
Publisher:  Penguin Classics
Format: Paperback
Pages: 215
Edition: New Edition
Country of Publication: London, United Kingdom
Publication Date: 
Size: 198 x 129 x 15

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