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