Down and Out in Paris and London

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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.

Book details and technical specifications

Format: Paperback / softback
ISBN13: 9780141393032
Published: January 2013

Number of pages: 224
Width: 111 mm
Height: 181 mm
Depth: 13 mm

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd