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DOWN AND OUT IN PARIS AND LONDON ; ANNOTATED EDITION
George Orwell
- Alma Books
- 26 Septembre 2024
- 9781847499271
In late 1927, at the age of twenty-four, George Orwell relocated to a tiny flat on London''s Portobello Road, and from there embarked on a series of exploratory "tramping" expeditions to the city''s East End, then a place of great squalor and deprivation. Later he moved to Paris''s bohemian Latin Quarter, where, in early 1929, during a bout of serious illness, he was the victim of a robbery that left him in a state of near destitution, forcing him to work punishing hours in a series of menial jobs, including as a restaurant dishwasher. These real-life experiences laid the foundations for what would be the young writer''s first full-length work.
Populated by a troupe of colourful characters, replete with penetrating observations and cast in the limpid prose that would become Orwell''s hallmark, Down and Out in Paris and London - published by Victor Gollancz in 1933 - provides both an invaluable historical snapshot and an insight into the perennial social evils of inequality, poverty and alienation.> -
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LITERARY AND POLITICAL ESSAYS ; ANNOTATED EDITION
George Orwell
- Alma Books
- 19 Juin 2025
- 9781847495150
One of the most celebrated novelists in the English language, George Orwell was also a prolific essay writer and literary reviewer, penning articles on such diverse subjects as the craft of writing, international politics and British cookery, and on such varied authors as Charles Dickens, H.G. Wells, George Bernard Shaw and P.G. Wodehouse.
This volume collects all of Orwell''s major essays, including ''Shooting an Elephant'', ''Inside the Whale'', ''Politics and the English Language'', ''Why I Write'' and ''Politics vs Literature: An Examination of Gulliver''s Travels'', as well as a generous selection of shorter pieces on a variety of literary and political subjects. As a whole, this collection will provide useful insights into Orwell as a committed intellectual and serve as an indispensable companion to his fiction.>
