Orwell era la grande forza morale della sua epoca' Spectator A Parigi puoi vivere con uno scellino al giorno se sai come fare. Ma è un affare complicato. Quando era uno scrittore in difficoltà, sui vent'anni, George Orwell viveva da squattrinato tra i membri più poveri della società. In queste prime memorie, racconta esperienze sconvolgenti come lavapiatti senza un soldo a Parigi, impegnando vestiti per comprare pane e vino per un giorno, dormendo in cuccette infestate da insetti, scambiando tecniche di sopravvivenza e mozziconi di sigaretta con altri vagabondi e arrancando tra le stanghe dei workhouse di Londra per dormire qualche ora e prendere un tè e due fette. Con sensibilità e compassione, Orwell ha esposto le difficoltà della povertà e ha offerto ai lettori uno sguardo senza precedenti sulla vita vissuta ai margini della società. Il suo vivido resoconto è un appello duraturo a sostenere le persone più vulnerabili del mondo ed esemplifica la sua convinzione che "il più grande dei mali e il peggiore dei crimini è la povertà". Il testo autorevole. Con una nuova introduzione di Kerry Hudson. *La sovraccoperta di questa straordinaria edizione rilegata presenta opere d'arte d'epoca di Elizabeth Friedlander, una delle più eminenti graphic designer europee del XX secolo. Cerca le edizioni complementari delle opere essenziali di Orwell, La fattoria degli animali e 1984.*
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George Orwell (Author)
George Orwell (1903–1950) is one of England's most famous writers and social commentators. He is the author of the classic political satire Animal Farm and the dystopian masterpiece Nineteen Eighty-Four. He is also well known for his essays and journalism, particularly his works covering his travels and his time fighting in the Spanish Civil War. His writing is celebrated for its piercing clarity, purpose and wit and his books continue to be bestsellers all over the world.
Kerry Hudson (Introducer)
Kerry Hudson was born in Aberdeen. Her first novel, Tony Hogan Bought Me an Ice-cream Float Before He Stole My Ma, won the Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust First Book Award and was shortlisted for an array of prizes including the Guardian First Book Award and the Sky Arts Award. Thirst, her second novel, won the prestigious Prix Femina étranger. Lowborn, her highly acclaimed first work of non-fiction, was a Radio 4 Book of the Week, a Guardian and Spectator Book of the Year and Stylist Book of the Decade. It is followed by Newborn. She was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2020.
When he was a struggling writer in his twenties, George Orwell lived as a down-and-out among the poorest members of society. In this early memoir, he recounts shocking experiences working as a penniless dishwasher in Paris, pawning clothes to buy a day’s worth of bread and wine, sleeping in bug-infested bunks, trading survival skills and cigarette butts with fellow tramps, and trudging between London’s workhouse spikes for a few hours’ sleep and tea-and-two-slices.
With sensitivity and compassion, Orwell exposed the hardships of poverty and gave readers an unprecedented look at life lived on the fringes of society. His vivid account is an enduring call to support the world’s most vulnerable people and exemplifies his belief that ‘The greatest of evils and the worst of crimes is poverty.’
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