# Down and Out in Paris and London

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- Book: [Down and Out in Paris and London](https://www.bookquiver.com/george-orwell/down-and-out-in-paris-and-london) ([Down and Out in Paris and London.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/george-orwell/down-and-out-in-paris-and-london.md))
- Authors: [George Orwell](https://www.bookquiver.com/george-orwell)
- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-01-4190-618-8
- Published: 2001-09-27
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## 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 'Hôtel X', living alongside tramps, surviving on scraps and cigarette butts - in an unforgettable account of what being down and out is really like. Includes an introduction by Dervla Murphy, as well as definitive footnotes assigned to Orwell.