Down and Out in Paris and London
€ 12,40
Informação do Produto
| ISBN | 9780141393032 |
|---|---|
| Autores | George Orwell |
| Editora | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Formato | Capa mole |
| Número de páginas | 224 |
| Peso (kg) | 0,138 |
| Data de Publicação | 03/01/2013 |
| Preço (iva excl.) | € 11,70 |
| Imposto | € 0,70 |
| Preço (iva inc.) | € 12,40 |
| Disponibilidade | 5 unidades em armazém externo |
Descrição do Produto
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 ''Hôtel 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.