• Down and Out in Paris and London is the first full-length work by the English author George Orwell, published in 1933. It is a memoir in two parts on the...
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  • Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom is a 2003 science fiction book, the first novel by Canadian author and digital-rights activist Cory Doctorow. It depicts...
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    George Orwell (category English reporters and correspondents)
    essay in English, and in the second half of his first book, Down and Out in Paris and London (1933). In early 1928 he moved to Paris. He lived in the rue...
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  • Ipso facto (category Latin words and phrases)
    (from George Orwell, Down and Out in Paris and London). Ipso facto denotes the automatic character of the loss of membership in a religious body by someone...
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    1930s-1960s: In the first half of Down and Out in Paris and London (1933), George Orwell described a life of low-paid squalor while working in the kitchens...
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    Supertramp" and the subject of the biography Into the Wild. Down and Out in Paris and London, a memoir of George Orwell's experiences as a tramp in London Swagman...
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    Yankee Hobo in the Orient, (1943), by John Patric Down and Out in Paris and London, by George Orwell Kings in Disguise (1988), by James Vance and Dan Burr...
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    George Orwell bibliography (category Open Library ID not in Wikidata)
    in Britain in the form of Down and Out in Paris and London and The Road to Wigan Pier and one of the first retrospectives on the Spanish Civil War in...
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    it refers to one's ability and need to be resourceful. In Down and Out in Paris and London, George Orwell described the term débrouillard as something...
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    Antoine Ettori, for Down and Out in Paris and London (2009) by mbl graphics. Studio band from the latest release, Auto Reconnaissance in 2020: Andy Tillison...
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  • Byrne's adaptation of Down and Out in Paris and London sold out at the Edinburgh Festival in 2015 and received multiple four and five star reviews before...
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  • confessional narrative and industry commentary on the cooking trade. Bourdain has cited George Orwell's Down and Out in Paris and London (1933), with its behind-the-scenes...
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    Rowton Houses (category Homelessness charities in the United Kingdom)
    squalid lodging houses of the time. George Orwell, in his 1933 book Down and Out in Paris and London, wrote about lodging houses: The best are the Rowton...
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  • The Spike (essay) (category Works originally published in The Adelphi)
    a vagrant in and around London as part of the social experiment that would form the basis of his first book Down and Out in Paris and London. The events...
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    Our Man in Havana by Graham Greene, in 2010, Dark Matter, a ghost story by Michelle Paver, In 2010, Down and Out in Paris and London and in 2012, The...
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    commemorate Octavia Hill, one of the Trust's founders. In his 1933 memoir Down and Out in Paris and London George Orwell reports that Ide Hill was notorious...
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  • Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984 film) (category Films set in London)
    in his first book, Down and Out in Paris and London. The canteen interiors were filmed in a disused grain mill at Silvertown. In contrast, the idyllic...
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    and Out in Paris and London. Gordon Lightfoot used the term navvies in his "Canadian Railroad Trilogy." Andy Partridge's song "Towers of London" on XTC's...
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  • Louis-Ferdinand Celine and George Orwell's Down and Out in Paris and London in its description of the lives of desperate, impoverished individuals in big cities....
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  • Victor Gollancz Ltd (category Publishing companies established in 1927)
    authors and their books including: George Orwell with Down and Out in Paris and London in 1933 Alfred Ayer with Language, Truth and Logic in 1936 A. J...
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  • Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir at the Balzac monument George Orwell spent 1928 and 1929 in Paris, writing Down and Out in Paris and London James Joyce...
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  • facilities. In 1933, George Orwell wrote about poverty in London and Paris, in his book Down and Out in Paris and London. In general, in most countries...
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    HM Prison Wandsworth (category Buildings and structures in the London Borough of Wandsworth)
    is imprisoned in Wandsworth for over four years. The prison is mentioned toward the end of the novel Down and Out in Paris and London (1933), by George...
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  • Ceremony (The Cult album) (category CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes))
    formed in 1996. "Heart of Soul" begins with the lyric "Down and out in London, Los Angeles, and Paris too", which is a reference to George Orwell's 'Down and...
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    Salt, inspired by the Saliera. Cellini is mentioned in George Orwell's Down and Out in Paris and London as reminding the protagonist of a waiter as a good...
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    Workhouse (category Poverty in the United Kingdom)
    of his first book, Down and Out in Paris and London (1933), George Orwell gives a brief but vivid account of his stay in a London workhouse when he roamed...
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    Astronomer Royal (category Ceremonial officers in the United Kingdom)
    astronomer royal is mentioned in H. G. Wells' novel The War of the Worlds, in George Orwell's Down and Out in Paris and London, and in Thomas Pynchon's novel...
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  • Larry Cedar (category Articles lacking in-text citations from March 2013)
    and Cautionary Tales From The Works of Eric Arthur Blair, which is a one-hour adaptation of three works by George Orwell: Down and Out in Paris and London...
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    Lee Hall (playwright) (category English dramatists and playwrights)
    released in May 2019, a stage musical adaptation of Pink Floyd's The Wall, and a film adaptation of George Orwell's 1933 memoir Down and Out in Paris and London...
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    have "rather let the side down". In a letter from 1946, Orwell wrote, "I dare say it's unfair in some ways and inaccurate in some details, but much of...
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