Down and Out in Paris and London (Penguin Modern Classics)

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Down and Out in Paris and London (Penguin Modern Classics)
Binding : Taschenbuch, Edition : New Ed, Label : Penguin Classics, Publisher : Penguin Classics, PackageQuantity : 1, medium : Taschenbuch, numberOfPages : 256, publicationDate : 2001-09-27, releaseDate : 2012-04-26, authors : George Orwell, languages : english, ISBN : 0141184388

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Down an Out in Paris and London
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. [...]

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