Down and Out in Paris and London

After an Etonian education and service in the Imperial Police, George Orwell embarked on his first attempt to confront the world of poverty and failure, to defy the money values of the predatory world and of his own privileged background. In Paris and in London, working as a plongeur or spending nights with the tramps in the 'spike', Orwell mingled with the victims of modern society to produce this vivid account of the first steps on the road that led him to Wigan Pier and Catalonia.

Published 1982.

Binding of book is intact. Moderate shelfwear, some creasing and fraying on covers of book. Heavy tanning and foxing on edges of book. Moderate foxing on insides of covers. Annotations in pen on inside of front cover. Moderate foxing on certain pages.