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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 'Hôtel 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.
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Down and Out in Paris and London, George Orwell
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- Jaar van publicatie
- 2013
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- Taal
- Engels
- Auteurs
- George Orwell
- Uitgever
- Penguin Books
- Jaar van publicatie
- 2013
- Formaat
- Paperback
- Aantal pagina's
- 224
- ISBN10
- 0141393033
- ISBN13
- 9780141393032
- Reeks
- Tags
- Non-fictie, Kaarten en reizen, Waargebeurde verhalen, Biographies, Reizen, Autobiografie en memoires, Verhalende Journalistiek, Frankrijk, 20e Eeuw, Opiniejournalistiek & Essays, Engeland, Verenigd Koninkrijk, Herinneringen, Sociale Problemen, Engelse literatuur, Reportages, Londen, Parijs, Armoede
- Eerste editie
- 1933
- Oorspronkelijke titel
- Down and Out in Paris and London
- Beoordeling
- 4,1 van 5
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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 'Hôtel 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.