Description
| Product ID: | 9781846976582 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Down and Out in Paris and London |
| Subtitle: | New Edition |
| Authors: | Author: George Orwell |
| Page Count: | 256 |
| Subjects: | Memoirs, Memoirs, True stories: general, True stories of heroism, endurance and survival, Social and cultural history, Poverty and precarity, True stories, True stories of heroism, endurance & survival, Social & cultural history, Poverty & unemployment, London, Greater London, France |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating 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. Exposing a 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. 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.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. |
| Imprint Name: | Polygon An Imprint of Birlinn Limited |
| Publisher Name: | Birlinn General |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2024-01-04 |