From the author of 1984, the classic semi-autobiographical story about the adventures of a penniless British writer in two cities. Down and Out in Paris and London follows the journey of a writer among the down-and-out in two great cities. Without self-pity and often with humor, this novel is Orwell at his finest–a sobering, truthful protrayal of poverty and society.
Down and Out in Paris and London
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This classic novel provides a literary and social commentary on poverty and society in early 20th-century Europe.
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| Weight | 1.05 lbs |
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| Dimensions | 13.5 × 1.3 × 20.3 in |
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Down and Out in Paris and London
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This classic novel offers students insight into societal structures and poverty while enhancing literary analysis and reading comprehension.
Orwell’s own experiences inspire this semi-autobiographical novel about a penniless man living in Paris in the early 1930s. The narrator’s poverty brings him into contact with strange incidents and characters, which he manages to chronicle with great sensitivity and graphic power. The latter half of the book takes the English narrator to his home city, London, where the world of poverty is different in externals only. A socialist who believed that the lower classes were the wellspring of world reform, Orwell actually went to live among them in England and on the continent. His novel draws on his experiences of this world, from the bottom of the echelon in the kitchens of posh French restaurants to the free lodging houses, tramps, and street people of London. In the tales of both cities, we learn some sobering Orwellian truths about poverty and society.
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| Weight | 0.168 lbs |
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| Dimensions | 13.5 × 1.8 × 14.6 in |
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