Down and Out in Paris and London [electronic resource] : New Edition of Orwell's vivid and groundbreaking memoir
George Orwell2024
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Published in 1933, and still relevant today, Orwell's first full-length work is
a compassionate and insightful description of the life of the working poor in
Paris and the homeless in London. Written when Orwell was a struggling writer in
his twenties, he vividly documents a world of unrelenting squalor – sleeping in
bug-infested hostels and doss houses, working as a plongeur in a Paris hotel,
surviving on scraps and cigarette butts, living alongside tramps, a 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. 'Orwell was the great moral force of his age' – Spectator
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Author:
George Orwell, Author
Imprint:
London United Kingdom : Polygon, 2024
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1 online resource (1 text file) (256 pages, 627782.0 Bytes)
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Platform: epubMode of access: Internet
ISBN:
9781788856416
Language:
English
BRN:
533949
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