Down and Out in Paris and London PDF Download

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Publisher: Penguin Books Limited
Genres: Biography: Literary, Memoirs Books, Literary Essays
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Pages: 240 pages
ISBN10: 0141184388
ISBN13: 9780141184388
Tags: Biography: Literary, Memoirs Books, Literary Essays, Free Download, PDF Download
Language: en
Physical Form: PDF Book
Type: PDF
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 'H tel 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.

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