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Down and Out in Paris and London
Engelsk Paperback
Down and Out in Paris and London
Engelsk Paperback

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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.

Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
224
ISBN-13:
9780141393032
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0141393033
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
3 jan 2013
Længde:
14mm
Bredde:
113mm
Højde:
182mm
Forlag:
Penguin Books Ltd
Oplagsdato:
3 jan 2013
Forfatter(e):
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