Down and Out in Paris and London
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Documents the author's 'first contact with poverty'. This title shows a world of unrelenting drudgery and squalor - sleeping in bug-infested hostels and doss houses of last resort, working as a dishwa...
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Documents the author's 'first contact with poverty'. This title shows a world of unrelenting drudgery and squalor - sleeping in bug-infested hostels and doss houses of last resort, working as a dishwasher in Paris' vile 'Hotel X', surviving on scraps and cigarette butts, living alongside tramps, a star-gazing pavement artist and more. 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.
Detaljer
Forlag
Penguin Classics
ISBN
9780141393032
Sprog
Engelsk
Sider
224
Udgivelsesdato
03-01-2013
Format
Paperback
Varenr.
2102093
EAN nr.
9780141393032
Varegruppe
Fiction paperback
Højde/Dybde (mm)
113
Bredde (mm)
182
Længde (mm)
14
Vægt (g)
134