Down and Out in Paris and London (Essential Penguin) - Softcover

Orwell, George

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140282564 ISBN 13: 9780140282566

Publisher: Penguin, 1999

Synopsis

Orwell's record of a period in the late Twenties when he lived among the tramps, dregs and plongeurs of London and Paris.

'It is the white-hot reaction of a sensitive observant, compassionate young man to poverty, injustice and the callousness ofthe rich ... It offers insights rather than solutions; but always insights have to precded solutions .... No one has ever claimed Down and Out is its author's best book, yet many of his admirers describe it as their favourite Orwell. Its flaws are numerous, but oddly endearing.'

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Review:

He saw through everything... Many have tried to imitate his particular kind of clarity without anything like his moral authority (Peter Ackroyd The Times)

A man who looked at his world with wonder and wrote down exactly what he saw, in admirable prose (John Mortimer)

Book Description:

Voluime 1 from The Complete Works of George Orwell, available separately for the first time.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0140282564
• ISBN 13: 9780140282566
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224