Down And Out In Paris And London

From the author of 1984, the classic semi-autobiographical story about the adventures of a penniless British writer in two cities.

Down and Out in Paris and London follows the journey of a writer among the down-and-out in two great cities. The book opens in the teeming slums of the Rue du Coq d’Or, depicting the eccentric lodgers, backstreet bistros, and sudden descents into hunger that define life on a few francs a day.

With unsparing clarity, the narrative charts the frantic underground of ...