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    <![CDATA[Down and Out in Paris and London]]>
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    <![CDATA[This unusual fictional account, in good part autobiographical, narrates without self-pity and often with humor the adventures of a penniless British writer among the down-and-out of two great cities. In the tales of both cities we learn some sobering Orwellian truths about poverty and society.]]>
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  <read_at>Sat Oct 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm quite embarrassed given all my years of &quot;expensive education&quot; that before this book I knew of Orwell as <em>1984</em> and <em>Animal Farm</em>. I'm sure somewhere in the cobwebs of my mind I knew he had written more, but it had slipped from my active memory. I forget exactly who or what prompted me to take this out from the library. Wow. The writing within the covers is magnificent and as enjoyable as possible when one takes into account the subject matter.]]></body>
    
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