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Orwell and the dispossessed : Down and out in Paris and London in the context of essays, reviews and letters selected from The complete works of George Orwell / edited by Peter Davison ; introduction by Peter Clarke.

Title
Orwell and the dispossessed : Down and out in Paris and London in the context of essays, reviews and letters selected from The complete works of George Orwell / edited by Peter Davison ; introduction by Peter Clarke.
Author
Orwell, George, 1903-1950
Publication
London : Penguin, 2001.

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Additional Authors
  • Davison, Peter, 1926-2022
  • Orwell, George, 1903-1950.
Description
xviii, 424 p.; 20 cm.
Summary
"The vivid, impassioned, writings collected together in this powerful volume chronicle Orwell's first-hand experiences of life among the underclass of the 'two nations' of rich and poor." "Down and Out in Paris and London is the young Orwell's memoir of his time as a struggling, often penniless writer, living among the destitute and dispossessed. Here he exposes a world unimaginable to most of his readers, one of vile doss-houses, hunger, squalor and desperate poverty - of 'going to the dogs'. There are also articles and letters on sleeping rough in Trafalgar Square, being arrested for drunkenness, on the poverty Orwell witnessed in Morocco and India, and his shocking essay, 'How the Poor Die'."--Jacket.
Series Statement
Penguin classics
Uniform Title
Works. Selections. 2001
Alternative Title
Works. 2001
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Biographies
  • History
  • History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Down and out in Paris and London.
ISBN
0141185198
OCLC
  • 46332066
  • SCSB-12059402
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library