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Down and out in Paris and London

By: George Orwell
Narrated by: Carl Mason
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Down and out in Paris and London is the first full-length work by the English author George Orwell, published in 1933. It is a memoir in two parts on the theme of poverty in the two cities. The first part is an account of living in near-destitution in Paris and the experience of casual labour in restaurant kitchens. The second part is a travelogue of life on the road in and around London from the tramp's perspective, with descriptions of the types of hostel accommodation available and some of the characters to be found living on the margins.

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Orwell was a masterful and eloquent writer but this excellent account of life on the streets in pre-WW II Paris and London is somewhat marred by the narrator's rather staccato delivery

Masterful Orwell reporting but...

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