Orwell George Orwell 
Down and Out in Paris and London 

‘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.