'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.
Genres
- 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
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