Down and Out in Paris and London

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Beschreibung

<p>George Orwell's vivid memoir of his time living among the desperately poor and destitute, <i>Down and Out in Paris and London</i> is a moving tour of the underworld of society.<br><br>'You have talked so often of going to the dogs - and well, here are the dogs, and you have reached them.' <br><br>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.</p>

Artikeldetails

EAN

9780141393032

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Taschenbuch

Maße

110 x 178 x 17 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2013

Verlag / Hersteller

Penguin Books Ltd (UK)