840 pages
English language
Published Nov. 8, 1980 by Secker & Warburg.
The road to Wigan Pier ; Homage to Catalonia ; Essays and journalism : 1931-1940 ; Essays and journalism : 1940-1943 ; Essays and journalism : 1944-1945 ; Essays and journalism : 1945-1949.
840 pages
English language
Published Nov. 8, 1980 by Secker & Warburg.
'You have talked so often of going to the dogs – and well, here are the dogs, and you have reached them.' George Orwell's vivid memoir of his time among the desperately poor and destitute in London and Paris is a moving tour of the underworld of society. Here he painstakingly documents a world of unrelenting drudgery and squalor – sleeping in bug-infested hostels and doss houses, working as a dishwasher in the vile 'Hotel X', living alongside tramps, surviving on scraps and cigarette butts – in an unforgettable account of what being down and out is really like.