Complex sentence: After the various ordeals of unemployment and near-starvation Orwell begins working long hours as a "plongeur" in the'Hotel X' and describes in chapter XIV the frantic and seemingly chaotic workings of the hotel as he understands it.
Split into simpler sentences: After the various ordeals of unemployment and hunger Orwell obtains a job as a "plongeur" in the'Hotel X' and begins working long hours. In chapter XIV he describes the frantic and seemingly chaotic workings of the hotel as he understands it.