'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 'Hotel X', living alongside tramps, surviving on scraps and cigarette butts – in an unforgettable account …
Down and out in Paris and London
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George Orwell: Down and out in Paris and London (1986, Secker & Warburg)
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'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 'Hotel X', living alongside tramps, surviving on scraps and cigarette butts – in an unforgettable account of what being down and out is really like.
229 pages
Langue : English
Publié 8 novembre 1986 par Secker & Warburg.
Sujets
- Homelessness -- England -- London -- History -- 20th century.
- Homelessness -- France -- Paris -- History -- 20th century.
- Paris (France) -- Social conditions.
- London (England) -- Social conditions.