Category Archives: Book reviews

Book review: Down and out in Paris and London

Book review: Down and out in Paris and London

Written in 1933, this book is a personal account by George Orwell of poverty and being in and out of work and homelessness in both Paris and London during the Great Depression. In London, beggars and tramps were institutionalised and socially ingrained in society. They were the very low of low in society and there… Continue Reading