Down and Out in Paris and London

Out in Paris and London ( in engl. Original Down and Out in Paris and London) is an early experimental report by George Orwell, published in 1933.

Content

After Orwell returns as a police officer in Burma, he will hang for some time as an English teacher in Paris. When he loses his job there, he goes voluntarily into poverty and first learns the slums, then know hunger. Together with a Russian friend, he works as Plongeur (a kind of rags ). As it this is too much, it can be organized by a friend in London a work which he did - after he has arrived in London - can take only two months later. This he lands again on the road and lives - of unemployed asylum to asylum drawing unemployment - as a vagrant in England.

The stories themselves are trying the lives of people in poverty not to be seen, but much more neutral display. But separated from these accounts of experiences trying Orwell ratings poverty conduct and analyze the nonsense of poverty. In addition to the many individual stories of belonging to the lower class people Done taught in Paris and London in addition an interesting insight into the hygienic conditions of the former restaurant.

Quotes

"I will never again think of all tramps were drunken scoundrels, nor will I believe that a beggar 's grateful if you give him a penny nor be surprised if unemployed lack energy, nor support the Salvation Army contributed, even my clothes pledge or prohibit leaflets, nor pleasure to have a meal in a posh restaurant. That's a start. "

" The other great evil in the life of the tramp is forced, forced inaction. "

Out in Paris and London | Day in Burma | A pastor's daughter | The joys of Aspidistra | The Road to Wigan Pier | My Catalonia | surfacing to fetch air | Animal Farm | 1984

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• Literature ( English )
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• Work of George Orwell