Down and Out in Paris and LondonDown and Out in Paris and London is George Orwell's memoir of living in poverty in Paris during the 1920s. '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 early memoir, Orwell recalls with vivid clarity his time working as a penniless dishwasher in Paris, pawning clothes to buy a day's