Down and Out in Paris and London is the first full-length work by the English author George Orwell, published in 1933. It is a memoir in two parts on the theme of poverty in the two cities. Its target
Cover of first edition
A passport photo of Orwell in the 1920s
Orwell's Paris street, in the 5th arrondissement: "tall old-fashioned windows and dark grey leaded roofs; not far from the École Normale Supérieure—earlier in the twenties, Hemingway had lived only 500 yards (460 m) from Orwell's street; Elliot Paul was then still living in his own 'narrow street', the Rue de la Huchette, in the same arrondissement down by the river near the Place Saint-Michel; and once, at the Deux Magots in 1928, Orwell thought he saw
Orwell described the four penny coffin as an inexpensive and comparatively safe sleeping option for the poor of London.
Tooley Street
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Down and Out in Paris and London
…tramping expeditions, culminating in a stint working in the Kent hop fields in August and September 1931. After this adventure, he ended up in the Tooley Street kip, which he found so unpleasant that he wrote home for money and moved to more comfortable lodgings. Orwell's first version of Down and Out was called…
Former South Eastern Railway offices at No. 84
Tooley Street can be seen on the left of this photo, running parallel to the river, between it and the railway line
St Olaf House
The Tooley Street fire of 1861