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4 Reviews
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goldtop said on Mar 28, 2007 | Add your feedback
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oh misery...
This little book has taken me a long, LONG time to get through. I enjoyed it initially finding it well written, I liked the character descriptions, the squalid living conditions, observations on Parisian life (early 1930s) and social-political comment. I imagined myself in the depths of the cellars ... (continue)
mrpeterryan said on Apr 28, 2010 | Add your feedback
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"It was the land of tea urn ad the Labour Exchange, as Paris is the land of bistro and the sweatshop"...
Once more Orwell succedes in this book, in capturing the essence of life...street corners and outcast, down and out in Paris and London.
The added value of the book it's its being a DIA ... (continue)Bryterlayter said on Sep 22, 2008 | Add your feedback
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scatterkeir said on Jan 27, 2008 | Add your feedback
Book Details
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- English Books
- Paperback 240 Pages
- Edition: New Ed
- ISBN-10: 0141187360
- ISBN-13: 9780141187365
- Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
- Pub date: Jun 05, 2003
- Dimensions: 1290 mm x 774 mm x 129 mm Just how big is that?
- Also available as: Hardcover, Audio CD, Audio Cassette, Others and eBook
- In other languages: other languages
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Interesting as it is some of Orwell's earliest writing, but you can't help getting cross with him for purposefully suffering what a lot of other people could not help but suffer.. it felt a bit voyeuristic; even if his aim was to highlight the social problems of L and P.. hmm...
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