Down and Out in Paris and London (1933)
Down and Out in Paris and London is a 1933 poor book written by George Orwell.
'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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What is Down and Out in Paris and London about?
'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.
When was Down and Out in Paris and London published?
Down and Out in Paris and London was published in 1933.
Who made Down and Out in Paris and London?
Down and Out in Paris and London was written by George Orwell.