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- 224pagine
- 8 ore di lettura
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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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- Pubblicato
- 2013
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- Lingua
- Inglese
- Autori
- George Orwell
- Editore
- Penguin Books
- Pubblicato
- 2013
- Formato
- In brossura
- Pagine
- 224
- ISBN10
- 0141393033
- ISBN13
- 9780141393032
- Serie
- Tag
- Saggistica, Mappe e viaggi, Storie vere, Biografie, Viaggi, Autobiografie e memorie, Giornalismo narrativo, Francia, XX Secolo, Giornalismo d’opinione & Saggi, Inghilterra, Gran Bretagna, Memorie, Problemi sociali, Letteratura inglese, Reportage letterario, Londra, Parigi, Povertà
- Prima pubblicazione
- 1933
- Titolo originale
- Down and Out in Paris and London
- Valutazione
- 4,1 su 5
- Descrizione
- 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.