Down and out in Paris and London

Description:

'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: Poor,  Literature,  Fiction,  Homelessness,  Social conditions,  History,  British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author),  Orwell, george, 1903-1950,  Poor, france,  Poor, great britain,  London (england), social conditions,  Paris (france), social conditions,  Authors, english,  Authors, biography,  Condiciones sociales,  Unemployed,  Pobres,  Desempleo,  Authors,  Ficción,  Autores,  Sociology,  Social history,  Social classes,  History, modern, 20th century,  Personal memoirs,  1903-1950,  Homes and haunts

People: George Orwell (1903-1950),  George Orwell

Places: London (England),  Paris (France),  England,  Paris,  London,  France,  Europe,  París (Francia),  Londres (Inglaterra),  Francia,  Inglaterra,  Londres,  Europa

Times: 20th century