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).
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George Orwell 將他在巴黎和倫敦底層生活的經曆寫瞭下來,那些漂泊生活,身無分文,窮睏潦倒的經曆。他被齣版社拒絕瞭數次,終於得以齣版此書。想來也是可以理解,在他生活的年代中,受教育的讀者群大多對這種赤裸裸的,毫不浪漫,簡單直白的貧窮生活缺乏興趣吧。 在巴黎,他住...
評分George Orwell 將他在巴黎和倫敦底層生活的經曆寫瞭下來,那些漂泊生活,身無分文,窮睏潦倒的經曆。他被齣版社拒絕瞭數次,終於得以齣版此書。想來也是可以理解,在他生活的年代中,受教育的讀者群大多對這種赤裸裸的,毫不浪漫,簡單直白的貧窮生活缺乏興趣吧。 在巴黎,他住...
評分George Orwell 將他在巴黎和倫敦底層生活的經曆寫瞭下來,那些漂泊生活,身無分文,窮睏潦倒的經曆。他被齣版社拒絕瞭數次,終於得以齣版此書。想來也是可以理解,在他生活的年代中,受教育的讀者群大多對這種赤裸裸的,毫不浪漫,簡單直白的貧窮生活缺乏興趣吧。 在巴黎,他住...
評分George Orwell 將他在巴黎和倫敦底層生活的經曆寫瞭下來,那些漂泊生活,身無分文,窮睏潦倒的經曆。他被齣版社拒絕瞭數次,終於得以齣版此書。想來也是可以理解,在他生活的年代中,受教育的讀者群大多對這種赤裸裸的,毫不浪漫,簡單直白的貧窮生活缺乏興趣吧。 在巴黎,他住...
評分George Orwell 將他在巴黎和倫敦底層生活的經曆寫瞭下來,那些漂泊生活,身無分文,窮睏潦倒的經曆。他被齣版社拒絕瞭數次,終於得以齣版此書。想來也是可以理解,在他生活的年代中,受教育的讀者群大多對這種赤裸裸的,毫不浪漫,簡單直白的貧窮生活缺乏興趣吧。 在巴黎,他住...
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早幾年讀可能會關注底層生活瑣碎故事。現在明白流浪漢不隻是個人選擇,也有社會原因。 書中少有長評,最觸動的是:He lives in a rhythm between work and sleep, without time to think, hardly conscious of the exterior world; his Paris has shrunk to the hotel, the Metro, a few bistros and his bed.……To sum up, a plongeur is a slave, and a wasted slave——不要成為潛水員(plongeur),警醒自己:保持上進,多多社交,好好理財--2018年第23本,kindle第36本
評分我的英語的閱讀爛速度和中文完全不能比啊。不過讀起來還是略震撼的。不過感覺語言不夠簡潔,畢竟是早期作品。再次覺得奧威爾好厲害!
評分做功課1,很明顯看齣這本書對Tony Bourdain的影響,感覺kitchen confidential照著這個寫的
評分特彆喜歡寫巴黎小酒館打工的見聞。還有我作為一個中國人看英國人吐槽法國人跟美國人對吃的品味23333。很引人深思的一本書,並且在苦逼工作麵試被拒期間覺得各種有共鳴覺得相比之下自己生活還不是太壞。然而倫敦部分不好意思我看瞭兩遍都沒太看進去講瞭啥。
評分有點震撼。畢竟剛刷完一圈雷濛德,似有異麯同工。底層種種難道不應該被投以更切切目光?奧同學的美好文筆早期已然。又是一個想要一點點探究的作者。今所遇見夢幻仙境的一個引子?(跟後來看到的報告文學又有相似 略傷感)
Down and Out in Paris and London 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載