Down and Out in Paris and London
Author: Orwell, George
ISBN: 9780141393032
Publisher: Penguin
Year First Published: 2013
Pages: 224
Dimensions: 180mm x 113mm x 14mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description
Orwell's vivid memoir of his time among the desperately poor and destitute, in a stunning new cover look for his great works
'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 'H tel 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.
ISBN: 9780141393032
Publisher: Penguin
Year First Published: 2013
Pages: 224
Dimensions: 180mm x 113mm x 14mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description
Orwell's vivid memoir of his time among the desperately poor and destitute, in a stunning new cover look for his great works
'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 'H tel 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.
