Down and Out in Paris and LondonIn late 1927, at the age of twenty four, George Orwell relocated to a tiny flat on Londons Portobello Road, and from there embarked on a series of exploratory tramping expeditions to the citys East End, then a place of great squalor and deprivation. Later he moved to Pariss bohemian Latin Quarter, where, in early 1929, during a bout of serious illness, he was the victim of a robbery that left him in a state of near destitution, forcing him to work