Down and Out in Paris and London (Orwell George); Penguin, 2013

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 'Hotel 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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Параметр	Значение
ISBN	978-0-14-139303-2
Автор(ы)	Orwell George
Автор	Orwell G.
Авторы	Orwell G.
Вес	0.13
Возрастное ограничение	16+
Год издания	2013
Год публикации	2013
Жанр	проза на иностранном языке
Издатель	Penguin
Издательство	Penguin
Кол-во страниц	224
Количество книг	1
Количество страниц	216
Обложка	мягкая обложка
Переплет	Мягкий
Переплёт	Мягкий
Серия	Penguin Modern Classics
Тип обложки	мягкая
Формат	111x181
Язык издания	Английский
Язык	Английский