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Down and Out in Paris and London
Paperback / softback
Main Details
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Down and Out in Paris and London
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Authors and Contributors |
By (author) George Orwell
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Series | Penguin Modern Classics |
Physical Properties |
Format:Paperback / softback | Pages:256 | Dimensions(mm): Height 198,Width 129 |
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Category/Genre | Literary essays |
ISBN/Barcode |
9780141184388
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Classifications | Dewey:362.5 |
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Publishing Details |
Publisher |
Penguin Books Ltd
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Imprint |
Penguin Classics
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Publication Date |
27 September 2001 |
Publication Country |
United Kingdom
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Description
'You have talked so often of going to the dogs - and well, here are the dogs, and you have reached them.' George Orwell's vivid memoir of his time among the desperately poor and destitute in London and Paris is a moving tour of the underworld of society. Here he painstakingly documents a world of unrelenting drudgery and squalor - sleeping in bug-infested hostels and doss houses, working as a dishwasher in the vile 'H tel X', living alongside tramps, surviving on scraps and cigarette butts - in an unforgettable account of what being down and out is really like.
Author Biography
Eric Arthur Blair (1903-1950), better known by his pen-name, George Orwell, was born in India, where his father worked for the Civil Service. An author and journalist, Orwell was one of the most prominent and influential figures in twentieth-century literature. His unique political allegory Animal Farm was published in 1945, and it was this novel, together with the dystopia of Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), which brought him world-wide fame. His novels and non-fiction include Burmese Days, Down and Out in Paris and London, The Road to Wigan Pier and Homage to Catalonia.
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