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Down and Out in Paris and London
Published 27 November 2017
ISBN 9781925626131
Format EBook
Extent 304pp

Down and Out in Paris and London

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27 Nov 2017
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27 Nov 2017
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Originally published in 1933 George Orwell's first work is a memoir of working in grimy restaurant kitchens in Paris, and tramping the streets and living in hostels in London.

Down and Out in Paris and London is one of the great accounts of life in the underclass: of being hard-up and hungry, of sleeping in seedy hostels and working in squalid restaurants. George Orwell’s first book published - when he was not yet thirty - is alive with the sights and smells of poverty. It is a revelatory memoir of surviving at the margins.
Published 27 November 2017
ISBN 9781925626131
Format EBook
Extent 304pp

About the author

George Orwell

George Orwell was one of England's most famous writers and social commentators. He was the author of the classic political satire Animal Farm and the dystopian masterpiece Nineteen Eighty-Four. He was 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.
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Praise for Down and Out in Paris and London

Orwell was the great moral force of his age

Spectator

An extraordinary and curious book: beautifully phrased, meticulous, honest and funny. George Orwell’s 1933 memoir, and a study of poverty, is a book both rooted in its era and able to transcend it... a book that has inspired countless people to try to understand the personal and political issues at the heart of homelessness – and continues to do so today.

Hannah Price

The white-hot reaction of a sensitive, observant, compassionate young man to poverty'

Dervla Murphy

Vivid and lurid and unappetizing, are the pictures he gives of what goes on behind the scenes, human and otherwise

Kirkus

It was the book of nonfiction in which he becomes George Orwell

D. J. Taylor