Down and Out in Paris and London
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| Rating | : | 4.87 (706 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0786161477 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 204 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-03-20 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
The "I" of this novel sets down the experiences of a man who finds himself in Paris, in the early 1930s, without a penny. He manages to keep alive and to record, with sensitivity and graphic power, the strange incidents and characters with which his poverty brings him in contact.
Horribly proofread Corinna Obviously, Orwell is a great writer. I gave this book one star because of the terrible editing. There were tons of really easy to correct typos, like i's and n's blurring into m's. Come on, it's not like Orwell is a new indie author. You guys couldn't find a better edition? Ridiculous. Amazon should take this one out of circulation.. Eric Almeida said An unflinching chronicle of day-to-day realities and hardships at society's lowest levels, not easily forgotten. Orwell offers an unflinching chronicle of day-to-day realities and hardships at society's lowest levels, written in his usual precise, unsentimental prose. At the baseline he performs an act of reportage---intended to expose and inform, to shake the reading public of the 19An unflinching chronicle of day-to-day realities and hardships at society's lowest levels, not easily forgotten Orwell offers an unflinching chronicle of day-to-day realities and hardships at society's lowest levels, written in his usual precise, unsentimental prose. At the baseline he performs an act of reportage---intended to expose and inform, to shake the reading public of the 1930s out of blithe assumptions about the origin and nature of poverty, of both working and destitute varieties. In this he succeeds. His accounts are visceral and direct. The impr. 0s out of blithe assumptions about the origin and nature of poverty, of both working and destitute varieties. In this he succeeds. His accounts are visceral and direct. The impr. Great book, bad edition. This is an amazing story that I would definitely recommend reading.Unfortunately for Orwell and me, the errors in the Kindle version were quite distracting. For one thing, words that are considered improper have been ---- out. This is a major problem considering the book includes a section specifically about the improper language used in London during the time. Quite a bit of this section is ---- out. Furthermore, there are typos all over the place
The wackiest tale involves a miser who ate cats, wore newspapers for underwear, invested 6,000 francs in cocaine, and hid it in a face-powder tin when the cops raided. In London, Orwell studied begging with a crippled expert named Bozo, a great storyteller and philosopher. His 1933 debut book (ostensibly a novel, but overwhelmingly autobiographical) was rejected by that elitist publisher T.S. What was a nice Eton boy like Eric Blair doing in scummy slums instead of being upwardly mobile at Oxford or Cambridge? Living Down and Out in Paris and London, repudiating respectable imperialist society, and reinventing himself as George Orwell. In Par