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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-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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Down and Out in Paris and London, George Orwell
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- Sprache
- Englisch
- Autor*innen
- George Orwell
- Verlag
- Penguin Books
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2013
- Einband
- Paperback
- Seitenzahl
- 224
- ISBN10
- 0141393033
- ISBN13
- 9780141393032
- Reihe
- Schlagwörter
- Sachbücher, Karten & Reisen, Wahre Geschichten, Biografien, Reisen, Autobiografien & Memoiren, Narrativer Journalismus, Frankreich, 20. Jahrhundert, Meinungsjournalismus, England, Großbritannien, Erinnerungen, Soziale Probleme, Englische Literatur, Reportage, London, Paris, Armut
- Erstveröffentlichung
- 1933
- Originaltitel
- Down and Out in Paris and London
- Bewertung
- 4,1 von 5 Sternen
- Beschreibung
- 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-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.