Written when Orwell was a struggling writer in his twenties, it documents his 'first contact with poverty': sleeping in bug-infested hostels and doss houses of last resort, working as a dishwasher in Paris, 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 readers, Orwell gave a human face to the statistics of poverty for the first time. In doing so, he found his voice as a writer.
Serie / Reihe: Penguin modern classics
Personen: Orwell, George
Standort: Präsenzbibl..
Orwell, George:
Down and out in Paris and London / George Orwell. - Reprint. - London [u.a.] : Penguin Books, 2001. - 230 S. - (Penguin modern classics)
ISBN 978-0-14-118438-8
Englisch - Signatur: Englisch Orwel - Buch