George Orwell's vivid narrative of his time spent living among the desperately poor and homeless, Down and Out in Paris and London, is a haunting tour of society's underworld. '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 chronicles his 'first contact with poverty'. Here, he carefully documents a world of unending drudgery and filth – sleeping in bug-infested lodgings and last-resort shelters, working as a dishwasher in Paris's squalid 'Hôtel X', surviving on scraps and cigarettes, living alongside tramps, a street artist gazing at the stars, and a hungry Russian ex-soldier. By 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.
Pages: 256, Dimensions: 12.9x12.9cm
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- Author
- George Orwell
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Language
- English
- Type
- Classic Literature
- Cover
- Soft
- Number of Pages
- 256
- ISBN-13
- 9780141184388
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- Books Adapted to TV Series / Movies
- No
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