George Orwell: Down and Out in Paris and London
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- Kategoria: maantiede & matkailu, alakategoria: brittein saaret
- Materiaali: Nidottu
- Kustantaja: Penguin Books
- Kieli: englanti
- ISBN: 9780141393032
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- Katseltu: 137 krt
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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. '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.