by George Orwell - £7.99 Penguin (2013)
paperback
ISBN 13: 9780141393032 | ISBN 10: 0141393033
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.
(Price & availability last checked: August 2019)
In booklists: George Orwell, Poverty & Social Exclusion,
In categories: Politics & Philosophy, Poetry & Writing,
© News From Nowhere Co-operative Ltd IP24524R 2004-2024 | Privacy policy | Contact | return to top of page