Down and Out in Paris and London
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| Rating | : | 4.16 (891 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0141184388 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 240 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-01-15 |
| Language | : | English |
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Heavily edited edition D. Escott Be advised that the Harcourt edition appears to be the original edited version. As such the passages on slang end up containing a lot of "-----" which is interesting from the perspective of censorship in the 1930s, but is clearly contrary to the authors intent. Before purchasing a copy check the third or fourth page of chapter 32 for the following passage:"The current London adjective, n. "Great memoir from one of our best essayists." according to B. Marold. `Down and Out in Paris and London' by the noted English essayist and political writer, George Orwell is possibly his third best known work, overshadowed by his much more famous two fictional works, `198Great memoir from one of our best essayists. B. Marold `Down and Out in Paris and London' by the noted English essayist and political writer, George Orwell is possibly his third best known work, overshadowed by his much more famous two fictional works, `1984' and `Animal Farm'. For the three readers who may not be familiar with the celebrity of these two works, they are among the few books which budding high school intellectuals feel compell. ' and `Animal Farm'. For the three readers who may not be familiar with the celebrity of these two works, they are among the few books which budding high school intellectuals feel compell. Excellent The descriptions of poverty and the low life people are forced into by poverty are never changing. What was true a hundred years ago is still true today.
In Paris, Orwell lived in verminous rooms and washed dishes at the overpriced "Hotel X," in a remarkably filthy, 110-degree kitchen. What was a nice Eton boy like Eric Blair doing in scummy slums instead of being upwardly mobile at Oxford or Cambridge? Living Down and Out in Paris and London, repudiating respectable imperialist society, and reinventing himself as George Orwell. He met "eccentric people--people who have fallen into solitary, half-mad grooves of life and given up trying to be normal or decent." Though Orwell's tone is that of an outraged reformer, it's surprising how entertaining many of his adventures are: gnawing poverty only enlivens the imagination, and the wild characters he met often swin
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. 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