George Orwell is a difficult author to summarize. He was a would-be
revolutionary who went to Eton, a political writer who abhorred
dogma, a socialist who thrived on his image as a loner, and a
member of the Imperial Indian Police who chronicled the iniquities
of imperialism. Both the books in this volume were published in the
1930s, a "a low, dishonest decade," as his coeval W.H. Auden
described it. Orwell's subjects in Down and Out in Paris and London
and The Road to Wigan Pier are the political and social upheavals
of his time. He focusses on the sense of profound injustice,
incipient violence, and malign betrayal that were ubiquitous in
Europe in the 1930s. Orwell's honesty, courage, and sense of
decency are inextricably bound up with the quasi-colloquial style
that imbues his work with its extraordinary power. His descriptions
of working in the slums of Paris, living the life of a tramp in
England, and digging for coal with miners in the North make for a
thoughtful, riveting account of the lives of the working poor and
of one man's search for the truth. Our edition includes the
following essays: Marrakech; How the Poor Die; Antisemitism in
Britain; Notes on Nationalism
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