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082			_2914.436
100			_aOrwell, George _d(1903–1950)
245			_aDown and out in paris and london / _cGeorge Orwell
250			_aPublished in 1940
260			_aNew Zealand : _bPenguin Books, _c1940.
300			_a215 pages : _c20cm
520			_aOrwell's own experiences inspire this semi-autobiographical novel about a man living in Paris in the early 1930s without a penny. The narrator's poverty brings him into contact with strange incidents and characters, which he manages to chronicle with great sensitivity and graphic power. The latter half of the book takes the English narrator to his home city, London, where the world of poverty is different in externals only. A socialist who believed that the lower classes were the wellspring of world reform, Orwell actually went to live among them in England and on the continent. His novel draws on his experiences of this world, from the bottom of the echelon in the kitchens of posh French restaurants to the free lodging houses, tramps, and street people of London. In the tales of both cities, we learn some sobering Orwellian truths about poverty and society.
650			_2Autobiography _aParis _vPoverty
650			_2Memoir _aLiterature
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