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Being a big fan of George Orwell, I fully expected to love this book. However, it left me less than satisfied. I found myself going to Wikipedia to get the backstory, as Orwell really left so many questions unanswered.
According to this narrative (Orwell's first book), Orwell found himself unemployed and penniless first in Paris, and then in London. But Orwell was very vague on how he came to be penniless and homeless in Paris and London. According to Wikipedia, he was definitely not without reso ...more
According to this narrative (Orwell's first book), Orwell found himself unemployed and penniless first in Paris, and then in London. But Orwell was very vague on how he came to be penniless and homeless in Paris and London. According to Wikipedia, he was definitely not without reso ...more
Listened to this as an audio book, and found it, amazingly funny. Yes. Funny. Not what I expected from Orwell at all.
Its the fictionalized memoir (do not know how much is fiction) of Orwell's experiences as a homeless person in Paris and London. He tells a lot stories brimming with ironic humor.
The sections wherein he gets a bit more political are, obviously, quite a bit more pedantic and dull.
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Its the fictionalized memoir (do not know how much is fiction) of Orwell's experiences as a homeless person in Paris and London. He tells a lot stories brimming with ironic humor.
The sections wherein he gets a bit more political are, obviously, quite a bit more pedantic and dull.
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Orwell's prose aren't that riveting, so at times this book just felt like an essay. Not that there's anything wrong with that per se, it's just that Down and Out lacked style. Some of the stories and anecdotes are really very interesting, and even sometimes funny, but it's very much a travel diary.
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At the end of 1927, Orwell ventured into the East End of London on one of a few sorties to discover the world of poverty and the down-and-outers who inhabit it. These experiences became the basis, with first hand knowledge, of this book. It is a stunning, culturally informative, and heartbreaking book.
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