The Complete Works of George Orwell: Volume 1: Down and Out in Paris and London

George Orwell

ISBN 10: 0436350238 / ISBN 13: 9780436350238

Published by Secker & Warburg, London, 1986

About this Item

The authoritative version to date, this edition restores material censored in the 1933 edition and includes Orwell's own modifications made for the 1935 French translation. Age-toning and minor edge wear to dust jacket. Corners lightly bumped and a few faint scratches to front cover but no loss to gold lettering. Previous owner's name neatly written on half-title page. No further marks or inscriptions. Binding is firm. 230 pages. s130.

Seller Inventory # EDB04688

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Complete Works of George Orwell: Volume 1: Down and Out in Paris and London
• Publisher: Secker & Warburg, London
• Publication Date: 1986
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0436350238
• ISBN 13: 9780436350238
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good

About this title

Synopsis

Few authors can have striven so hard to make themselves professional writers as did George Orwell. 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. Down and Out in Paris and London was the outcome of those years in Paris and of months tramping south-east England. 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. ' 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 of which, in due time, he was to achieve world-wide fame: George Orwell. 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.

Review

He saw through everything... Many have tried to imitate his particular kind of clarity without anything like his moral authority (Peter Ackroyd The Times)

A man who looked at his world with wonder and wrote down exactly what he saw, in admirable prose (John Mortimer)