Orwell's vivid memoir of his time among the desperately poor and destitute, in a stunning new cover look for his great works
'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 'H tel 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.
Product code: 9780141393032
| ISBN |
9780141393032 |
| Dimensions (HxWxD in mm) |
H180xW111xS13 |
| Series |
Penguin Modern Classics |
| No. Of Pages |
224 |
| Publisher |
Penguin Books Ltd |
| On Sale Date |
01/01/2000 |