Down and Out in Paris and London
About this book
'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
- 1903-1950
- authors
- authors, biography
- authors, english
- autores
- british and irish fiction (fictional works by one author)
- condiciones sociales
- desempleo
- ficción
- fiction
- history
- history, modern, 20th century
- homelessness
- homes and haunts
- literature
- london (england), social conditions
- orwell, george, 1903-1950
- paris (france), social conditions
- personal memoirs
- pobres
- poor
- poor, france
- poor, great britain
- social classes
- social conditions
- social history
- sociology
- unemployed