β Scribed by Orwell, George
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'You have talked so often of going to the dogs Π²Πβ and well, here are the dogs, and you have reached them.' George Orwell's vivid memoir of his time among the desperately poor and destitute in London and Paris is a moving tour of the underworld of society. Here he painstakingly documents a world of unrelenting drudgery and squalor Π²Πβ sleeping in bug-infested hostels and doss houses, working as a dishwasher in the vile 'HΓ΄tel X', living alongside tramps, surviving on scraps and cigarette butts Π²Πβ in an unforgettable account of what being down and out is really like.
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_The kitchen grew dirtier and the rats bolder, though we trapped a few of them. Looking round that filthy room, with raw meat lying among refuse on the floor, and cold, clotted saucepans sprawling everywhere, and the sink blocked and coated with grease, I used to wonder whether there could be a rest
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