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'Htel 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.
Publisher: Penguin Books LtdISBN: 9780141184388Number of pages: 256Weight: 200 gDimensions: 196 x 128 x 15 mm
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