Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell

Down and Out in Paris and London

George Orwell

224 pages first pub 1933 (editions)

nonfiction classics memoir informative reflective medium-paced
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"Poverty is what I am writing about". In the late 1920s, Eric Blair resigned his post as a colonial policeman in Burma, immersed himself in the slums of Paris and London, and reinvented himself as George Orwell, one of the most revered prose styli...

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3.98
based on 7,801 reviews

Moods

reflective: 75%

informative: 70%

dark: 41%

sad: 32%

adventurous: 24%

funny: 24%

challenging: 22%

emotional: 16%

inspiring: 9%

hopeful: 5%

tense: 5%

lighthearted: 4%

mysterious: 1%

relaxing: 1%


Pace

16% of readers chose fast
60% of readers chose medium
23% of readers chose slow
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