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To be truly poor is to become invisible. Stripped of your possessions, your dignity, and even your name, you are reduced to nothing but a pair of hungry eyes in a crowded street.
This is the brutal lesson George Orwell learns when he trades his comfortable life for the squalid kitchens of Paris and the freezing doss-houses of London. With nothing but the clothes on his back and a will to survive, he descends into the underworld of the destitute. Here, he scrubs greasy plates alongside Russian eccentrics and Italian dreamers, sleeps in flea-ridden hostels with tramps and navvies, and discovers that hunger is a language spoken the same way in every city.
Down and Out in Paris and London is Orwell's raw, unflinching, and surprisingly humane account of life at rock bottom. It is a journey into the belly of the beast, where poverty strips away all pretense and reveals not only the worst of humanity—but also its strange, stubborn resilience. Uncomfortable, eye-opening, and darkly funny, this is the book that launched one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century—and the fury that would fuel his masterpieces to come.
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GenrePsychology, Biography and Memoir, Business and Economics
Length7 hrs
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