"At Christmas 1932, Eric Arthur Blair brought his parents a stack of trial copies of his first book, Pounds of Dashing in Paris and London." After reading the chronicle of wandering along the bottom of two European capitals written in a free, colloquial language, her mother prudishly summarized: "This is not Eric." Mrs. Blair was right; the author was a new, still unknown writer - George Orwell. This is then, much later, his name will thunder around the world, become a symbol of free thought and will be associated with two great works of the twentieth century: the story-parable "Livestock" (1945) and the dystopian novel "1984" (1949). And in 1933, after the publication of the story "Pounds of Dashing in Paris and London," literary circles first started talking about a new original writer. And already in the first major work of Orwell, the main features of his writing style and style were manifested, which are so characterized by attention to language, simplicity, reliability and accuracy, and which, in the words of TS Eliot, are distinguished by "fundamental honesty." The debut, largely autobiographical, story is full of humor, light, dynamic and witty. It is no coincidence that many fans of Orwell's work call Pounds of Dashing in Paris and London their favorite work. This book is just a vivid episode from Life's big report, an episode that evokes both unwitting grin and admiration.