228 pages
English language
Published May 30, 1972 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
Down and Out in Paris and London
George Orwell: Down and Out in Paris and London (1972, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company)
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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.
Subjects
- Orwell, george, 1903-1950
- Authors, english
- Authors, biography
- Homelessness
- Poor, great britain
- Poor, france
- London (england), social conditions
- Paris (france), social conditions