Down and Out in Paris and London

George Orwell's vivid memoir of his time living among the desperately poor and destitute Down and Out in Paris and London is a moving tour of the underworld of society.'You have talked so often of going to the dogs - and well here are the dogs and you have reached them.' 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 h...See More