Down and Out in Paris and London by Orwell

Down and Out in Paris and London

"Poverty is what I am writing about". In the late 1920s, Eric Blair resigned his post as...
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Down and Out in Paris and London by Orwell

Down and Out in Paris and London

$27.05

Down and Out in Paris and London

$27.05
Author: Orwell
Format: Paperback
Language: English
"Poverty is what I am writing about". In the late 1920s, Eric Blair resigned his post as a colonial policeman in Burma, immersed himself in the slums of Paris and London, and reinvented himself as George Orwell, one of the most revered prose stylists in the English language. Orwell decided to write about the lives of the poor - the dishwashers of Paris, the tramps of London - not by imagining poverty, but by experiencing poverty. The result is a book which is as provocative and incisive about class inequalities, homelessness, and social prejudices today as it was when it was first published in 1933.

Down and Out in Paris and London was George Orwell's first book, and it remains a masterpiece of prose writing. This edition is accompanied by an introduction which examines Orwell's book for its literary, social, and political significance.

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Author: Orwell
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 10/24/2022
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Paperback
ISBN: 9780198835219

About the Author

George Orwell

John Brannigan is Professor of English and Head of the School of English, Drama and Film at University College Dublin. He is the author of several books on modern Irish and British literature, including Archipelagic Modernism: Literature in the Irish and British Isles, 1890-1970 (2015), Race in Modern Irish Literature and Culture (2009), and Orwell to the Present: Literature in England, 1945-2000 (2003). He has also authored books on the work of Pat Barker and Brendan Behan. He was editor of the Irish University Review from 2010 to 2016.

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