num_pages: 246
description: A memoir of the author's time among the desperately poor and destitute in London and Paris. It 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.
language: English
title: Down and Out in Paris and London
titlecomplete: Down and Out in Paris and London
characters: Bozo, Paddy, Boris, George Orwell
genres: Biography, France, Politics, Memoir, Nonfiction, Literature, Classics, Autobiography, Travel, History
ratings_count: 84508
places: England, Paris, France, London, England
publisher: Penguin