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 '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…
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- ISBN: 978-0-14-190618-8
- EAN: 9780141906188
- Produktnummer: 17830881
- Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2001
- Seitenangabe: 256 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 692 KB
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George Orwell
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