This edition of Down and Out in Paris and London differs in many ways from all earlier editions and retores material censored by its original publisher in 1933. ' Orwell thought of calling this first book 'Confessions of a Dishwasher', and he hesitated for some time over the pseudonym under which it was published, the name by which, in due time, he was to achieve worldwide fame- George Orwell. Exposing the grim reality of a life marred by poverty, Down and Out in Paris and London, part memoir, part social commentary, would become George Orwells. Whilst not quite autobiography, it does give a vivid picture of the kind of life he led 'in the lower depths', and exemplifies his belief that 'The greatest of evils and the worst of crimes is poverty. As a child he talked of becoming a writer he wrote for student publications at Eton whilst serving in the Imperial Police in Burma he sketched out ideas for Burmese Days on returning to Europe, he spent two years in Paris struggling to write.ĭown and Out in Paris and London was the outcome of those years in Paris and of months tramping south-east England. Volume 1 of The Complete Works of George Orwellįew authors can have striven so hard to make themselves professional writers as did George Orwell.
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