"Down and Out in Paris and London" is a social documentary of George Orwell who wrote autobiographical over a period of his life, he lived in precarious financial circumstances in Paris and London. In Paris was Orwell, after he had burned a while so that he could not eat for days even buy again and again, by the help of a Russian friend a poorly paid job as an assistant in a hotel. Monster alive and interesting Orwell Schildungen work and hierarchy behind the scenes of a deceptive Nobel Hotels and his later appointment as an assistant in a restaurant kitchen, where unimaginable hygienic grievances prevailed that were apparently very widespread at that time in Paris. One thinks, it could hardly get any worse, but then traveled Orwell to London, where he described the local social conditions from the perspective of the tramp, to whom he was at times. He lived among the homeless, vagrants and beggars (begging was then officially banned in England in prison in order to make the small matter of survival for the impoverished people a little more challenging!) And describes the dismal conditions in various prison-like "spikes" (accommodation facilities for the poor ), homeless shelters, Salvation Army shelter, church auxiliaries and workhouses. Despite all the social criticism, the whole is so well observed and described very exciting without bitterness, that one, this book still draws of 1933 under its spell. An impressive and sometimes very oppressive documentary on humiliating poverty in the 20th century and people at the edge of the abyss, the author of the well-known novel "Nineteen-eightyfour" the world has produced. The book was in my opinion the duty-reading in secondary schools are, because it is on the one hand in easily understandable English written, on the other hand, it sharpens the reader's eye for social injustice and people who are not as fortunate as himself.
