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This is one of George Orwell's early attempts at immersion journalism:
actually living what you want to write about. As part of his lifelong quest
to write things that would make life better for all people, Orwell turned
to
slumming. In Down and Out in Paris and London, Orwell explores the
life of the disenfranchised poor, the underemployed, and the flat broke.
It's depressing, but Orwell's voice is extremely compelling, and often
hilariously funny, as when he describes his gruesome job as a dishwasher
in a dysfunctional French restaurant.
The Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature , April 1, 1995
Autobiographical work by George Orwell, published in 1933. Orwell's
first published book, it contains essays in which actual events are
recounted in a fictionalized form. The book recounts that to atone for
the
guilt he feels about the conditions under which the disenfranchised and
downtrodden peoples of the world exist, Orwell decides to live and work
as one of them. Dressed as a beggar, he takes whatever employment
might be available to a poverty-stricken outcast of Europe. In Paris he
lives in a slum and works as a dishwasher. The essay "How the Poor
Die" describes conditions at a charity hospital there. In London's East
End, he dresses and lives like his neighbors, who are paupers and the
poorest of working-class laborers. Dressed as a tramp, he travels
throughout England with hoboes and migrant laborers. --This text refers
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Part autobiography, this unusual novel follows the experiences of a
penniless adventurer, first in Paris in the early 1930s and later in London,
where he mingles among tramps and street people. --This text refers to
the audio
cassette edition of this title
Synopsis of Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell
Part autobiography, this unusual novel follows the experiences of a
penniless adventurer, first in Paris in the early 1930s and later in London,
where he mingles among tramps and street people. 5 cassettes. --This
text refers to the audio
cassette edition of this title
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