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  • Published: 2 November 2001
  • ISBN: 9780141906188
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 256
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Down and Out in Paris and London




Renowned urban artist Shepard Fairey's new look for Orwell's classic

'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 'Hôtel X', living alongside tramps, surviving on scraps and cigarette butts - in an unforgettable account of what being down and out is really like.

Includes an introduction by Dervla Murphy, as well as definitive footnotes assigned to Orwell.

  • Published: 2 November 2001
  • ISBN: 9780141906188
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 256
Categories:

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George Orwell

George Orwell (1903–1950) is one of England's most famous writers and social commentators. He is the author of the classic political satire Animal Farm and the dystopian masterpiece Nineteen Eighty-Four. He is also well known for his essays and journalism, particularly his works covering his travels and his time fighting in the Spanish Civil War. His writing is celebrated for its piercing clarity, purpose and wit and his books continue to be bestsellers all over the world.

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