Down And Out In Paris And Lopod
Vintage Publishing
Down and Out in Paris and LondonAuthor(s): George Orwell, Kerry Hudson\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Vintage Publishing, United Kingdom\nImprint: Harvill Secker\nISBN-13: 9781787300972, 978-1787300972\nSynopsis\nVolume 1 of The Complete Works of George Orwell\n\nFew authors can have striven so hard to make themselves professional writers as did George Orwell. As a child he talked of becoming a writer; he wrote for student publications at Eton; whilst serving in the Imperial Police in Burma he sketched out ideas for Burmese Days; on returning to Europe, he spent two years in Paris struggling to write.\n\nDown and Out in Paris and London was the outcome of those years in Paris and of months tramping south-east England. Whilst not quite autobiography, it does give a vivid picture of the kind of life he led 'in the lower depths', and exemplifies his belief that 'The greatest of evils and the worst of crimes is poverty. ' Orwell thought of calling this first book 'Confessions of a Dishwa.
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