Down and Out in Paris and London
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,...
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: январь 2020
