Down and Out in Paris and London - Penguin Classics
George Orwell

New Edition

Paperback (27 Sep 2001)


Categories: Biography: Literary Memoirs Literary Essays Social & Cultural History Poverty & Unemployment Homelessness Travel Writing Classic Travel Writing


Description
George Orwells 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 Pariss 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.


Product details

Format Paperback | 256 pages
Dimensions 129 x 198 x 15mm | 191g
Publication date 01 Dec 2001
Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint Penguin Classics
Publication City/Country London, United Kingdom
Language English
Edition Statement Repr.
ISBN13 9780141184388
Bestsellers rank 69,459