Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell (Penguin)

Down and Out in Paris and London

by George Orwell

Penguin, 1982
ISBN 0140002979
Paperback

Condition: Very Good
A little edge and shelf wear, a little rubbing and bumping to edges and corners, previous owners’ inscription on synopsis page, age toned pages (see photographs)

“After an Etonian education and service in the Imperial Police, George Orwell embarked on his first attempt to confront the world of poverty and failure, to defy the money values of the predatory world and his own privileged background.  In Paris and in London, working as a plongeur or spending nights with the tramps I the ‘spike’, Orwell mingled with the victims of modern society to produce this vivid account of the first steps on the road that led him to Wigan Pier and Catalonia.”