Down and out in Paris and London

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George Orwell: Down and out in Paris and London (1960, Secker & Warburg)

213 pages

English language

Published Nov. 8, 1960 by Secker & Warburg.

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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

  • Poor -- France -- Paris.
  • Poor -- England -- London.
  • Paris (France) -- Social conditions.
  • London (England) -- Social conditions.