Modern Classics Down and Out in Paris and London
Paperback
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Request this book.| Genre: | Classics |
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| Language : | English |
| Published: | April 28, 2009 |
| Edition: | 13th |
Paperback | |
| ISBN13: | 9780141184388 |
| ISBN10: | 0141184388 |
| Pages: | 240 |
| Dimensions: | 5.43 x 8.5 x 0.61 inches |
| Weight: | 198.45 g |
About the Book
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.