Down and Out in Paris and London

Name: Down and Out in Paris and London
Brand: George Orwell
SKU: 9780141184388
Price: 8.24 GBP
Availability: InStock

by George Orwell

Title:

Author:

George Orwell

Series (if any):

Penguin Modern Classics

Format:

Paperback

Number of pages:

256 pages

Publisher:

TBS-Penguin Random House Wholesale

ISBN-13:

9780141184388

EAN:

9780141184388

Classifications:

Biography and non-fiction prose

Weight (g):

312

Dimensions (mm):

197 x 128 x 16

Publication Country:

United Kingdom

Language:

English

Condition:

New

Price:£8.24

41 copies in stock

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Description

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.