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Down and Out in Paris and London
The classic reimagined with cover art by Shepard Fairey
2024 || Paperback || George Orwell || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
To be poor and destitute in 1920s Paris and London was to experience life at its lowest ebb. George Orwell, penniless and with nowhere to go, found himself experiencing just this as he wandered the streets of both capitals in search of a job. This book gives an account of the streets and those who have no choice but to live on them.
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The Road to Wigan Pier
2024 || Paperback || George Orwell || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
Deals with the working-class life in the bleak industrial heartlands of Yorkshire and Lancashire in the 1930s, the Road to Wigan Pier is a brilliant and bitter polemic that has lost none of its political impact over time. This title includes descriptions of social injustice, cramped slum housing, dangerous mining conditions, squalor, and more.
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Essays
2024 || Paperback || George Orwell || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
Features that illuminate the life and work of one of the most individual writers of this century. Displaying an almost unrivalled mastery of English plain prose, this essays create a literary manner from the process of thinking aloud and continue to challenge, move and entertain.
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The Road to Wigan Pier
New Annotated Edition
2024 || Paperback || George Orwell || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
Now presented in a new annotated edition, The Road to Wigan Pier represents a unique record of a society riven by class inequality and plagued by unemployment, inadequate housing, unsafe working conditions and other social ills, as well as providing an invaluable insight into the evolution of Orwell's political consciousness.