Down and Out in Paris and London
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Beschreibung
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.
The white-hot reaction of a sensitive, observant, compassionate young man to poverty Dervla Murphy
Produktdetails
| Einband | Taschenbuch |
|---|---|
| Seitenzahl | 224 |
| Erscheinungsdatum | 03.01.2013 |
| Sprache | Englisch |
| ISBN | 978-0-14-139303-2 |
| Reihe | Penguin Modern Classics |
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| Verlag | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Maße (L/B/H) | 18/11.1/2.5 cm |
| Gewicht | 136 g |
| Verkaufsrang | 35317 |