Down and Out in Paris and London: Penguin Modern Classics | George Orwell

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/487910 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Down and Out in Paris and London: Penguin Modern Classics Author: George Orwell Narrator: Thomas Judd Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 40 minutes Release date: January 7, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 2 Genres: Essays & Anthologies Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. George Orwell's vivid memoir of his time living among the desperately poor and destitute, Down and Out in Paris and London is a moving tour of the underworld of society. 'You have talked so often of going to the dogs - and well, here are the dogs, and you have reached them.' Written when Orwell was a struggling writer in his twenties, it documents his 'first contact with poverty'. Here, he painstakingly documents a world of unrelenting drudgery and squalor - sleeping in bug-infested hostels and doss houses of last resort, working as a dishwasher in Paris's vile 'Hôtel X', surviving on scraps and cigarette butts, living alongside tramps, a star-gazing pavement artist and a starving Russian ex-army captain. Exposing a shocking, previously-hidden world to his readers, Orwell gave a human face to the statistics of poverty for the first time - and in doing so, found his voice as a writer. (P) Penguin Audio 2021