Down and Out in Paris and London
Series: Penguin Modern ClassicsPublication details: England; Penguin; 2001Edition: [New ed.]Description: 230 Pages; PaperbackISBN:- 9780141184388
- 362.5
Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Book Adult and Young Adult 15-17 | Karachi Classics | 362.5 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | PKLC022654 | ||
Book Adult and Young Adult 15-17 | Karachi Classics | 362.5 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | PKLC020362 |
"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 'H�otel 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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