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title: "Down and Out in Paris and London"
author: "George Orwell"
rating: 4
date_read: 2019/03/31
shelves: []
tags: [book, goodreads]
status: "read"
format: ""
pages: 246
reviewed: True
isbn: ="9780141184388"---
# Down and Out in Paris and London
**Author:** George Orwell
**Date Read:** 2019/03/31
**Rating:** 4/5
**Bookshelves:**
## My Review
Lovely first-person account of days spent in the streets of Paris and London by the author. A very different type of travelogue (in his own words) that provides a first person account of what poverty could be like. Wonder if theres a contemporary Indian first-person account of life in any of our cities; could be darker and drearier, given that we still do not have the broken city Socia welfare system that the author seeks a reform of....