Description
| Product ID: | 9781529032703 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | Macmillan Collector's Library |
| Title: | Down and Out in Paris and London |
| Authors: | Author: George Orwell |
| Page Count: | 256 |
| Subjects: | Autobiography: historical, political and military, Autobiography: historical, political & military, Autobiography: writers, Memoirs, Poverty and precarity, Autobiography: literary, Memoirs, Poverty & unemployment, London, Greater London, France, c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period) |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating George Orwell’s famous account of his own experience living in poverty in Paris then London. With an introduction by Lara Feigel. <p><i>Down and Out in Paris</i> <i>and </i><i>London</i> 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.<br><br>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.<br><br>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.</p> |
| Imprint Name: | Macmillan Collector's Library |
| Publisher Name: | Pan Macmillan |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2021-03-04 |