Down and Out in Paris and London (Penguin Modern Classics) - Softcover

Orwell, George

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0141187360 ISBN 13: 9780141187365

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 2003

Synopsis

Written when Orwell was a struggling writer in his twenties, the book documents his 'first contact with poverty': sleeping in bug-infested hostels and doss houses, working as a dishwasher in Paris, 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 readers, Orwell gave a human face to poverty, and in doing so, found his voice as a great writer.

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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 Classics
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0141187360
• ISBN 13: 9780141187365
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240