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Down and Out in Paris and London

  • Автор: Orwell George

  • Переплет: мягкий
  • Страниц: 216
  • Формат: 18x11x1.4 см
  • Вес: 136 г
  • ISBN: 9780141393032

  • Серия: Penguin Modern Classics

  • Год издания: 2013

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Наличие: ОТПРАВКА В ТЕЧЕНИЕ 9-13 РАБОЧИХ ДНЕЙ

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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.