Description

• Beautiful small hardback gift edition of Orwell’s iconic early memoir
• As a struggling writer in his twenties, 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, and trading survival skills and cigarette butts with fellow tramps.
• New copy [Harvill Secker, London, 2020]
• Hardback with dustjacket features period artwork by Elizabeth Friedlander [pre-eminent European 20th-century graphic designer]
• ISBN 9781787302532