'You have talked so often of going to the dogs - and well here are the dogs and you have
reached them'. George Orwell's vivid memoir of his time among the desperately poor and
destitute in London and Paris is a moving tour of the underworld of society. Here he
painstakingly documents a world of unrelenting drudgery and squalor - sleeping in bug-infested
hostels and doss houses working as a dishwasher in the vile 'Hotel X' living alongside tramps
surviving on scraps and cigarette butts - in an unforgettable account of what being down and
out is really like.
