Down and Out in Paris and London
$22.63
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
1 November 2001
Summary
From Dishwasher to Down and Out: A Memoir of Poverty in Paris and London
“You have talked so often of going to the dogs - and well, here are the dogs, and you have reached them.” George Orwell’s vivid memoir plunges into the lives of the desperately poor in London and Paris, offering a moving tour of society’s underbelly. He meticulously documents a world of unrelenting drudgery and squalor: sleeping in bug-infested hostels, toiling as a dishwasher in the vile ‘H tel X’, living alon…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141184388 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0141184388 |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
| Author: | George Orwell |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 1 November 2001 |
| Weight: | 192g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 17mm |
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About The Author
George Orwell
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. His novels and non-fiction include Burmese Days, Down and Out in Paris and London, The Road to Wigan Pier and Homage to Catalonia.
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