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Parametry
- 224 stránek
- 8 hodin čtení
Více o knize
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.
Nákup knihy
Down and Out in Paris and London, George Orwell
- Jazyk
- Rok vydání
- 2013
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Doručení
Platební metody
- Jazyk
- anglicky
- Autoři
- George Orwell
- Vydavatel
- Penguin Books
- Rok vydání
- 2013
- Vazba
- měkká
- Počet stran
- 224
- ISBN10
- 0141393033
- ISBN13
- 9780141393032
- Série
- Štítky
- Naučná literatura, Mapy & Cestování, Skutečné příběhy, Životopisy, Cestování, Autobiografie & Memoáry, Literatura faktu, Francie, 20. století, Publicistika & Eseje, Anglie, Velká Británie, Anglická literatura, Vzpomínky, Sociální problémy, Reportážní literatura, Londýn, Paříž, Chudoba
- První vydání
- 1933
- Původní název
- Down and Out in Paris and London
- Hodnocení
- 4,1 z 5
- Anotace
- 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.