# 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_classics
- Medium: audio
- Length: 6 h 41 min
- Narrated by: Thomas Judd
- ISBN: 978-02-4152-348-3
- Published: 2021-01-07
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Audiobook · 6 h 41 min

## Description

Brought to you by Penguin. 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 houses of last resort, working as a dishwasher in Paris's vile 'Hôtel X', surviving on scraps and cigarette butts, living alongside tramps, a star-gazing pavement artist and a starving Russian ex-army captain. Exposing a shocking, previously-hidden world to his readers, Orwell gave a human face to the statistics of poverty for the first time - and in doing so, found his voice as a writer. (P) Penguin Audio 2021