Down and Out in Paris and London
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Publisher Description
'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.
Customer Reviews
Dedicated and insightful
Few people have the commitment Orwell had to learning. While he may be known for his fiction, Orwell’s non-fiction shows just how much he was able to truly experience life and document it in a captivating way.