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Down and Out in Paris and London George Orwell

Down and Out in Paris and London By George Orwell

Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell

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Summary

George Orwell's famous account of his own experience living in poverty in Paris then London. With an introduction by Lara Feigel.

Down and Out in Paris and London Summary

Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell

Down and Out in Paris and London was George Orwell's first published book. It is at once a very personal account, and a vivid expose of hard lives weighed down by poverty in France and England between the wars.

Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket-sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. This edition is introduced by writer Lara Feigel.

Towards the end of the 1920s, whilst living in Paris, George Orwell's few remaining funds are stolen and he quickly falls into a life of severe poverty. Living hand to mouth, he shares squalid lodgings with Russian-born Boris and finds tedious and back-breaking work washing up in the bowels of Paris restaurant kitchens. On his return to England, he lives as a tramp, finding occasional shelter in often dangerous doss houses.

Down and Out in Paris and London Reviews

The thief who took the last of an ailing George Orwell's money from his Paris room in 1929 did a big favour to political literature. -- Vanessa Thorpe * Observer *
Little that Orwell has written, here and elsewhere, has lost the hum of relevancy, from the causes of poverty and its long-term effects - it annihilates the future - to its everyday toll of boredom. -- Laurence Mackin * Irish Times *
Down and Out is 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. * Independent *
Orwell's is a plea for empathy for the laborer, the tramp, and the impoverished . . . [it] is a fascinating anthropological study of poverty, its empirical value tarnished by its richly entertaining prose, and overt imposition of Orwell's political dispositions upon his observations. * Medium *
Books like Down and Out show us that the line between deprivation and success can be a very thin one. The latter is often achieved through learning how to love the former . . . What makes [it] fantastic is his lucid prose. * LA Review of Books *
Have a look at the book and catch the strange fascination of the telling. Vivid and lurid and unappetizing, are the pictures he gives of what goes on behind the scenes, human and otherwise. * Kirkus Reviews *

About George Orwell

Eric Arthur Blair (George Orwell) was born in 1903 in India, where his father was a civil servant. After studying at Eton, he served with the Indian Imperial Police in Burma for several years, and this inspired his first novel, Burmese Days. After two years in Paris, he returned to England to work as a teacher and then in a bookshop. In 1936 he travelled to Spain to fight for the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War, where he was badly wounded. During the Second World War he worked for the BBC. A prolific journalist and essayist, Orwell wrote some of the most influential books in English literature, including the dystopian Nineteen Eighty-Four and his political allegory Animal Farm. He died from tuberculosis in 1950.

Additional information

NGR9781529032703
9781529032703
1529032709
Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell
George Orwell
Macmillan Collector's Library
New
Hardback
Pan Macmillan
2021-03-04
256
N/A
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