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Just read this, by George Orwell.  It was written when Orwell was a struggling writer in his twenties, he’s broke sleeping in bug-infested hostels and doss houses and working as a dishwasher in Paris.  He is living with tramps and surviving on scraps and cigarette butts.  He gives a personal and honest account of poverty in Paris and London from those times.