Down and Out in Paris and London

作者:[英] 乔治·奥威尔

页数:224

出版时间:2013-1

价格:0

isbn号码:9780141393032

图书标签:英文原版小说乔治·奥威尔英国社会GeorgeOrwell英文英国文学

George Orwell's vivid memoir of his time living among the desperately poor and destitute, "Down and Out in Paris and London" is a moving tour of the underworld of society from the author of "1984", published with an introduction by Dervla Murphy in "Penguin Modern Classics". 'You have talked so often of going to the dogs - and well, here are the dogs, and you have reached them.' Written when Orwell was a struggling writer in his twenties, it documents his 'first contact with poverty'. Here, he painstakingly documents a world of unrelenting drudgery and squalor - sleeping in bug-infested hostels and doss houses of last resort, working as a dishwasher in Paris' vile 'Hotel X', surviving on scraps and cigarette butts, living alongside tramps, a star-gazing pavement artist and a starving Russian ex-army captain. Exposing a shocking, previously-hidden world to his readers, Orwell gave a human face to the statistics of poverty for the first time - and in doing so, found his voice as a writer. Eric Arthur Blair (1903-1950), better known by his pen-name, George Orwell, was born in India, where his father worked for the Civil Service. An author and journalist, Orwell was one of the most prominent and influential figures in twentieth-century literature. His unique political allegory "Animal Farm" was published in 1945, and it was this novel, together with the dystopia of "Nineteen Eighty-Four" (1949), which brought him world-wide fame. All his novels and non-fiction, including "Burmese Days" (1934), "Down and Out in Paris and London" (1933), "The Road to Wigan Pier" (1937) and "Homage to Catalonia" (1938) are published in "Penguin Modern Classics". If you enjoyed "Down and Out in Paris and London", you might like "Homage to Catalonia", also available in "Penguin Modern Classics". "Orwell was the great moral force of his age". ("Spectator"). "The white-hot reaction of a sensitive, observant, compassionate young man to poverty". (Dervla Murphy).

读后感

George Orwell 将他在巴黎和伦敦底层生活的经历写了下来，那些漂泊生活，身无分文，穷困潦倒的经历。他被出版社拒绝了数次，终于得以出版此书。想来也是可以理解，在他生活的年代中，受教育的读者群大多对这种赤裸裸的，毫不浪漫，简单直白的贫穷生活缺乏兴趣吧。 在巴黎，他住...

George Orwell 将他在巴黎和伦敦底层生活的经历写了下来，那些漂泊生活，身无分文，穷困潦倒的经历。他被出版社拒绝了数次，终于得以出版此书。想来也是可以理解，在他生活的年代中，受教育的读者群大多对这种赤裸裸的，毫不浪漫，简单直白的贫穷生活缺乏兴趣吧。 在巴黎，他住...

George Orwell 将他在巴黎和伦敦底层生活的经历写了下来，那些漂泊生活，身无分文，穷困潦倒的经历。他被出版社拒绝了数次，终于得以出版此书。想来也是可以理解，在他生活的年代中，受教育的读者群大多对这种赤裸裸的，毫不浪漫，简单直白的贫穷生活缺乏兴趣吧。 在巴黎，他住...

George Orwell 将他在巴黎和伦敦底层生活的经历写了下来，那些漂泊生活，身无分文，穷困潦倒的经历。他被出版社拒绝了数次，终于得以出版此书。想来也是可以理解，在他生活的年代中，受教育的读者群大多对这种赤裸裸的，毫不浪漫，简单直白的贫穷生活缺乏兴趣吧。 在巴黎，他住...

George Orwell 将他在巴黎和伦敦底层生活的经历写了下来，那些漂泊生活，身无分文，穷困潦倒的经历。他被出版社拒绝了数次，终于得以出版此书。想来也是可以理解，在他生活的年代中，受教育的读者群大多对这种赤裸裸的，毫不浪漫，简单直白的贫穷生活缺乏兴趣吧。 在巴黎，他住...

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乔治奥威尔的“落魄随笔”，看得人想自己拿起笔写写身边的奇人异事。（英文书刚开头还有兴趣一个词一个词查，后来就完全“不求甚解”了....

语言难以想象的朴实，极其口语化，有时候甚至很难懂，看奥威尔的生平和随笔感觉他的观点有时候非常天真理想化，太难以想象极具前瞻性和讽刺性的1984居然出自同一人之手。

乔治奥威尔的“落魄随笔”，看得人想自己拿起笔写写身边的奇人异事。（英文书刚开头还有兴趣一个词一个词查，后来就完全“不求甚解”了....

语言难以想象的朴实，极其口语化，有时候甚至很难懂，看奥威尔的生平和随笔感觉他的观点有时候非常天真理想化，太难以想象极具前瞻性和讽刺性的1984居然出自同一人之手。