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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.
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.
Erscheinungsjahr: | 2013 |
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Genre: | Importe, Romane & Erzählungen |
Rubrik: | Belletristik |
Medium: | Taschenbuch |
Übersetzungstitel: | Erledigt in Paris und London |
Reihe: | Penguin Modern Classics |
Inhalt: | 224 S. |
ISBN-13: | 9780141393032 |
ISBN-10: | 0141393033 |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Originalsprache: | Englisch |
Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
Autor: | Orwell, George |
Hersteller: |
Penguin Books Ltd (UK)
Penguin Classics |
Maße: | 110 x 178 x 17 mm |
Von/Mit: | George Orwell |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 03.01.2013 |
Gewicht: | 0,134 kg |
Erscheinungsjahr: | 2013 |
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Genre: | Importe, Romane & Erzählungen |
Rubrik: | Belletristik |
Medium: | Taschenbuch |
Übersetzungstitel: | Erledigt in Paris und London |
Reihe: | Penguin Modern Classics |
Inhalt: | 224 S. |
ISBN-13: | 9780141393032 |
ISBN-10: | 0141393033 |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Originalsprache: | Englisch |
Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
Autor: | Orwell, George |
Hersteller: |
Penguin Books Ltd (UK)
Penguin Classics |
Maße: | 110 x 178 x 17 mm |
Von/Mit: | George Orwell |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 03.01.2013 |
Gewicht: | 0,134 kg |