[Down and Out in Paris and London]
>> I love this book! :))
> Me too.
> When I was in my late teens I was unemployed and semi-homeless and I
> often spent days without eating because of want of money.
> I also did occasional casual work as a catering assistant- a "plongeur"-
> in London hotels- I have also collected cigarette ends from the street,
> exactly as Orwell, and the London tramps did as they marched from spike
> to spike.
I spent one night in Camberwell spike and it hadn't changed much from
Orwell's description of forty years earlier.
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