Down and Out in Paris and London By George Orwell David Brooks argues that our

David Brooks argues that our hunger for wealth and status is eroding our ability to create meaningful inner lives

moral lessons laid in the mouths of principal characters

as a response to Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin

SHORTLISTED FOR JCB PRIZE FOR LITERATURE

Zafira is the Hunter

Down and Out in Paris and London By George Orwell David Brooks argues that ourA memoir of the author's time among the desperately poor and destitute in London and Paris. It documents a world of unrelenting drudgery and squalor sleeping in bug infested hostels and doss houses, working as a dishwasher in the vile 'Hotel X', living alongside tramps, surviving on scraps and cigarette butts.