Down and Out in Paris and London

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George Orwell: Down and Out in Paris and London (2018, Penguin Random House)

272 pages

English language

Published May 30, 2018 by Penguin Random House.

ISBN:
978-1-78730-097-2
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'You have talked so often of going to the dogs – and well, here are the dogs, and you have reached them.' George Orwell's vivid memoir of his time among the desperately poor and destitute in London and Paris is a moving tour of the underworld of society. Here he painstakingly documents a world of unrelenting drudgery and squalor – sleeping in bug-infested hostels and doss houses, working as a dishwasher in the vile 'Hotel X', living alongside tramps, surviving on scraps and cigarette butts – in an unforgettable account of what being down and out is really like.

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Subjects

  • Orwell, george, 1903-1950
  • Authors, english
  • Authors, biography
  • Homelessness
  • Poor, great britain
  • Poor, france
  • London (england), social conditions
  • Paris (france), social conditions