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Down and Out in Paris and London

Paperback • 1963

Down and Out in Paris and London

By George Orwell

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About the book

Written when Orwell was a struggling writer in his twenties, it documents his 'first contact with poverty'. Here, he painstakingly documents a world of unrelenting drudgery and squalor - sleeping in bug-infested hostels and doss houses of last resort, working as a dishwasher in Paris's vile 'Hôtel X', surviving on scraps and cigarette butts, living alongside tramps, a star-gazing pavement artist and a starving Russian ex-army captain. Exposing a shocking, previously-hidden world to his readers, ...Show more

Autobiography: writers
Memoirs
Classic fiction: general and literary

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9780141184388

Published year

1963

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Down and Out in Paris and London

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