Down and Out in Paris and London
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| Verlag | Penguin Books UK |
| Auflage | 2013 |
| Seiten | 224 |
| Format | 11,3 x 18,0 x 1,3 cm |
| Gewicht | 136 g |
| Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
| Reihe | The Great Orwell |
| ISBN-10 | 0141393033 |
| EAN | 9780141393032 |
| Bestell-Nr | 14139303EA |
Orwell's vivid memoir of his time among the desperately poor and destitute, in a stunning new cover look for his great works
Kurzbeschreibung:
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. In this title, he documents his time living among the desperately poor and destitute.
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.
Rezension:
The white-hot reaction of a sensitive, observant, compassionate young man to poverty Dervla Murphy
