- Poor, Literature, Fiction, Homelessness
'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.
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- classical in formformally daring
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- Author
- George Orwell
- First published
- 1933
- Pages
- 224
- Publisher
- Alma Classics, Vintage Classics, Editions 10/18
- Editions
- 119
- Language
- Spanish, French, Italian, German
- ISBN
- 9781520283371
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“THE Rue du Coq d'Or, Paris, seven in the morning.”
George Orwell, originally born as Eric Arthur Blair, was an English novelist and journalist. His work is marked by keen intelligence and wit, a profound awareness of social injustice, an intense, revolutionary opposition to totalitarianism, a passion for clarity in language and a belief in democratic socialism. ([Source][1].) [1]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Orwell
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