Down and Out in Paris in London

Informationen zum Autor Eric Arthur Blair (1903-1950), better known by his pen-name, George Orwell , was born in India, where his father worked for the Civil Service. An author and journalist, Orwell was one of the most prominent and influential figures in twentieth-century literature. His unique political allegory Animal Farm was published in 1945, and it was this novel, together with the dystopia of Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), which brought him world-wide fame. His novels and non-fiction include Burmese Days, Down and Out in Paris and London, The Road to Wigan Pier and Homage to Catalonia . Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung Documents the author's 'first contact with poverty'. This title shows 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.

Product details

• Authors: George Orwell, Orwell George
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 03.01.2013
• EAN: 9780141393032
• ISBN: 978-0-14-139303-2
• No. of pages: 224
• Dimensions: 112 mm x 182 mm x 15 mm
• Series: Penguin Classics; Penguin Modern Classics; The Great Orwell; Penguin Modern Classics; Penguin Classics; The Great Orwell
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; London, Greater London, France, TRAVEL / Essays & Travelogues, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Poverty & Homelessness, HISTORY / Social History, Poverty & unemployment, Social and cultural history, Paris (City), c 1919 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), Classic Travel Writing, Poverty and precarity