Down and Out in Paris and London / Книга на Английском; Penguin, 2020
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- Издатель: Penguin
- ISBN: 9780141184388
EAN: 9780141184388
- Книги: Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке
- ID: 12039164
Описание
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 'Hotel 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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Характеристики (14)
Параметр | Значение |
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Автор(ы) | Orwell George |
Издатель | Penguin |
Кол-во страниц | 244 |
Год издания | 2020 |
Серия | Penguin Modern Classics |
ISBN | 9780141184388 |
Обложка | мягкая обложка |
Жанр | проза на иностранном языке |
Издательство | Penguin |
Вес | 0.19 |
Возрастное ограничение | 16+ |
Тип обложки | мягкая |
Количество страниц | 244 |
Количество книг | 1 |
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