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A 6 page discussion of Orwell’s semi-autobiographical book. In it, Orwell had moved from his upper middle class lifestyle into Paris slums to work as a dishwasher and live in rat-infested hotels. From there he moved on to London to wander haphazardly across the countryside. The experiences which he relates shed considerable light on the physical and mental experiences of being poor, so much light in fact that the book was originally rejected by publisher T.S. Eliot presumably because of the grim and hopeless picture which was presented. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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George Orwell was one of the most prolific and noted authors of his time. He wrote a diversity of subjects
and in a diversity of formats averaging about a book a year between his first publication in 1933 until he stared to experience declining health around the beginning of World
War II when his production began to slow (Monarch Notes, 1963). He occasionally wrote poetry, individual essays on literary, political and social matters and political autobiographies, as well as
his noted political satires and novels. Orwell originally published "Down and Out in Paris and London" in 1933. Although it was presented as a novel, it really was
a semi-autobiographical account of a significant component of Orwells own early life experiences. Orwell had moved from his upper middle class lifestyle into Paris slums to work as a
dishwasher and live in rat-infested hotels. From there he moved on to London to wander haphazardly across the countryside in search of work and freedom, homeless yet gloriously free!
The experiences which he relates shed considerable light on the physical and mental experiences of being poor, so much light in fact that the book was originally rejected by
publisher T.S. Eliot presumably because of the grim and hopeless picture which was presented. While living and working in squalor in both London
and Paris, Orwell experienced more than just the hunger pains of poverty. He discovered that to many people that lifestyle was just an inescapable fact of life. Many
chose to deal with the horrors of their circumstances through their own eccentricity or even madness. To those individuals there were no clear lines demarcating normalcy and abonormalcy or
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