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DOWN AND OUT IN PARIS AND LONDON
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| By: |
George Orwell, Dervla Murphy |
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Paperback |
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| ISBN 10: |
0141184388 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780141184388 |
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| Publisher: |
PENGUIN BOOKS LTD |
| Pub. date: |
27 September, 2001 |
| Series: |
Penguin Modern Classics |
| Pages: |
256 |
| Description: |
Deals with the underworld of society. In this book, the author 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' vile 'Hotel X', surviving on scraps and cigarette butts, living alongside tramps, a star-gazing pavement artist and more. |
| Synopsis: |
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 'Hotel 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. |
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UK |
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Penguin Classics |
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