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Down and Out in Paris and London: New Edition

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Publishing Details

Full Title:

Down and Out in Paris and London: New Edition

Contributors:

By (Author) George Orwell
Introduction by Hugo Rifkind

ISBN:

9781846976582

Publisher:

Birlinn General

Imprint:

Polygon An Imprint of Birlinn Limited

Publication Date:

1st April 2024

Country:

United Kingdom

Classifications

Readership:

General

Fiction/Non-fiction:

Non Fiction

Main Subject:
Other Subjects:

True stories: general
True stories of heroism, endurance and survival
Poverty and precarity
Social and cultural history

Dewey:

828.91209

Physical Properties

Physical Format:

Paperback

Number of Pages:

256

Dimensions:

Width 129mm, Height 198mm, Spine 20mm

Weight:

234g

Description

George Orwells 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 Pariss vile Htel 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.

Author Bio

George Orwell (19031950) 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. His writing is celebrated for its piercing clarity, purpose and wit and his books continue to be bestsellers all over the world.

Hugo Rifkind is a columnist, critic and leader writer for The Times and a presenter on Times Radio, having formerly been a columnist for the Spectator, GQ and the Herald. He is a regular panellist on BBC Radio 4s comedy show The News Quiz, and an occasional guest on television shows that arent supposed to be funny at all. He was born and raised in Edinburgh, studied in Cambridge, and now lives in North London in a house where everybody else speaks German, including the dog.

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