Down and Out in Paris and London

Zusatztext Have a look at the book and catch the strange fascination of the telling. Vivid and lurid and unappetizing, are the pictures he gives of what goes on behind the scenes, human and otherwise. Informationen zum Autor Eric Arthur Blair (George Orwell) was born in 1903 in India where his father was a civil servant. After studying at Eton, he served with the Indian Imperial Police in Burma for several years which inspired his first novel, Burmese Days . After two years in Paris, he returned to England to work as a teacher and then in a bookshop. In 1936 he travelled to Spain to fight for the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War, where he was badly wounded. During the Second World War he worked for the BBC. A prolific journalist and essayist, Orwell wrote some of the most influential books in English literature, including the dystopian Nineteen Eighty-Four and his political allegory Animal Farm . He died from tuberculosis in 1950. Klappentext The average millionaire is only the average dishwasher dressed in a new suit Vorwort George Orwell’s famous account of his own experience living in poverty in Paris then London. With an introduction by Lara Feigel. Zusammenfassung Down and Out in Paris and London was George Orwell’s first published book. It is at once a very personal account, and a vivid exposé of hard lives weighed down by poverty in France and England between the wars. Part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket-sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. This edition is introduced by writer Lara Feigel. Towards the end of the 1920s, whilst living in Paris, George Orwell’s few remaining funds are stolen and he quickly falls into a life of severe poverty. Living hand to mouth, he shares squalid lodgings with Russian-born Boris and finds tedious and back-breaking work washing up in the bowels of Paris restaurant kitchens. On his return to England, he lives as a tramp, finding occasional shelter in often dangerous doss houses. ...

Product details

• Authors: George Orwell
• Assisted by: Lara Feigel (Introduction), Feigel Lara (Introduction)
• Publisher: Macmillan
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 18
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.03.2021
• EAN: 9781529032703
• ISBN: 978-1-5290-3270-3
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 100 mm x 156 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Macmillan Collector's Library; Collector's Library
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; London, Greater London, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary Figures, France, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Political, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Social Activists, Poverty & unemployment, Autobiography: historical, political & military, Autobiography: literary, Paris (Region), c 1930 to c 1939, Autobiography: historical, political and military, c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), Autobiography: writers, Poverty and precarity