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Down And Out In Paris And London
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 from the author of "1984" published with an introduction by Dervla Murphy in "Penguin Modern Classics". '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' vile 'Hotel 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. Eric Arthur Blair (1903-1950) better known by his pen-name George Orwell was born in India where his father worked for the Civil Service. An author and journalist Orwell was one of the most prominent and influential figures in twentieth-century literature. His unique political allegory "Animal Farm" was published in 1945 and it was this novel together with the dystopia of "Nineteen Eighty-Four" (1949) which brought him world-wide fame. All his novels and non-fiction including "Burmese Days" (1934) "Down and Out in Paris and London" (1933) "The Road to Wigan Pier" (1937) and "Homage to Catalonia" (1938)
are published in "Penguin Modern Classics". If you enjoyed "Down and Out in Paris and London" you might like "Homage to Catalonia" also available in "Penguin Modern Classics". "Orwell was the great moral force of his age". ("Spectator"). "The white-hot reaction of a sensitive observant compassionate young man to poverty". (Dervla Murphy)."
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. Eric Arthur Blair (1903-1950) better known by his pen-name George Orwell was born in India where his father worked for the Civil Service. An author and journalist Orwell was one of the most prominent and influential figures in twentieth-century literature. His unique political allegory "Animal Farm" was published in 1945 and it was this novel together with the dystopia of "Nineteen Eighty-Four" (1949) which brought him world-wide fame. All his novels and non-fiction including "Burmese Days" (1934) "Down and Out in Paris and London" (1933) "The Road to Wigan Pier" (1937) and "Homage to Catalonia" (1938)
are published in "Penguin Modern Classics". If you enjoyed "Down and Out in Paris and London" you might like "Homage to Catalonia" also available in "Penguin Modern Classics". "Orwell was the great moral force of his age". ("Spectator"). "The white-hot reaction of a sensitive observant compassionate young man to poverty". (Dervla Murphy)."
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