Down and Out in Paris and London - George Orwell (1933)

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"You have talked so many times about 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 relentless monotony and misery: sleeping in insect-infested hostels and asylums, working as a dishwasher in the vile 'Hotel
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Poor, Literature, Fiction, Homeless, Social conditions, History, British and Irish fiction (fictional works by a single author), Orwell, george, 1903-1950, Poor, France, Poor, Great Britain, London (England), social conditions, Paris (France), social conditions, Authors, English, Authors, biography, Social conditions, Unemployed, Poor, Unemployment, Authors, Fiction, Authors, Sociology, Social history, Social classes, Modern history, 20th century, Personal memories, 1903-1950, Houses and hauntsPlaces
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Originally published: London: Gollancz, 1933.