Name: Matthew Jackson's review of Down and out in Paris and London by George Orwell
Item: Down and out in Paris and London
Rating: 4
Author: Matthew Jackson

George Orwell

a novel

Down and out in Paris and London

Matthew Jackson

Andrew John Kinney

This is arguably my favorite Orwell book. I have never been part of the working poor as Orwell was at the time described in this book, but I have worked a job where I regularly worked 80 hour weeks and sometimes >100 hours, so I related to his work schedule that was so insane he did not have a spare moment to look for another job. It is also a window into the desperation of the Great Depression. Orwell scathingly describes the hypocrisy of the faith-based organizations in England, which had a very explicit quid pro quo in their soup kitchens for the poor. It is a fairly short, but hard-hitting book.

Highly recommended. Other Orwell books I loved are Homage to Catalonia and Burmese Days.

Meriem💫

This is a masterful and poignant depiction of what poverty, destitution and essentially of what starving for the sake of one's art are truly like.

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