Vintage Down and out in paris and london/george orwell

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THE AUTHORATITIVE TEXT 'You can live on a shilling a day in Paris if you know how.

But it is a complicated business' As a struggling writer in his twenties, Orwell lived as a down-and-out among the poorest members of society.

In this, his early memoir, Orwell recalls with vivid clarity his time working as a penniless dishwasher in Paris, pawning clothes to buy a day's worth of bread and wine, sleeping in bug-infested bunks, trading survival skills and cig.