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Down and Out in Paris and London
New Edition of Orwell’s vivid and groundbreaking memoir
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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. Written when Orwell was a struggling writer in his twenties, it documents his 'first contact with...
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Down and Out in Paris and London
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. Exposing a 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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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.
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 'Hotel X', surviving on scraps and cigarette butts, and 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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INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781846976582
Publisher: Birlinn General
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 04 January 2024
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Polygon An Imprint of Birlinn Limited
Contributors:
- Introduction by Hugo Rifkind
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 20.0mm
Width: 129.0mm
Height: 198.0mm
Weight: 234g
Pages: 256
About the Author
George Orwell (1903-1950) is one of England's most famous writers and social commentators. He is the author of the classic political satire Animal Farm and the dystopian masterpiece Nineteen Eighty-Four. He is also well known for his essays and journalism, particularly his works covering his travels and his time fighting in the Spanish Civil War.
Darren McGarvey aka LOKI grew up in Pollok. He is a writer, performer, community activist and columnist, and former rapper-in-residence at Police Scotland's Violence Reduction Unit. He was part of the Poverty Truth Commission that was hosted in Glasgow in 2009 and has presented eight programmes for BBC Scotland exploring the root causes of anti-social behaviour and social deprivation.
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