Orwell's vivid memoir of his time among the desperately poor and destitute, in a stunning new cover look for his great works
'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.
- ISBN:
- 9780141393032
- 9780141393032
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Category:
- Memoirs
- Format:
- Paperback
- Publication Date:
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11-02-2013
- Language:
- English
- Publisher:
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Country of origin:
- United Kingdom
- Pages:
- 224
- Dimensions (mm):
- 181x111x13mm
- Weight:
- 0.13kg
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