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Book title: Down and Out in Paris and London Book author: George Orwell Geroge Orwell lived in Paris and London for a period of time when he was subjected to unemployment, poverty and hunger. This book is his account of those experiences and also his take on poverty in the modern world. If you have read Orwell’s Animal Farm or other books, you will probably nod from time to time while reading this and think, oh now I know what inspired Orwell to create his best works . Bengali literature has many masterpieces on poverty, take Bibhutibhushan’s “Apur Shongshar” — the difference of those classics with this Englishman’s tale is—Mr. Orwell simply puts his experience with poverty into words, straightforward and without attaching too much of emotion—almost like looking into those days with a soft feeling. This experience with poverty that is not told in a tragic fashion, but matter of factly, impressed me. The to-be-broke man, to the at-last-unemployed hungry man, to the plongeur at a big ho...