{"product_id":"down-out-in-paris-london-2","title":"Down \u0026 Out In Paris \u0026 London","description":"\u003cp\u003eGeorge Orwell''s vivid memoir of his time living among the desperately poor and destitute, \u003ci\u003eDown and Out in Paris and London\u003c\/i\u003e is a moving tour of the underworld of society.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''You have talked so often of going to the dogs - and well, here are the dogs, and you have reached them.'' \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWritten when Orwell was a struggling writer in his twenties, it documents his ''first contact with poverty''. Here, he painstakingly documents a world of unrelenting drudgery and squalor - sleeping in bug-infested hostels and doss houses of last resort, working as a dishwasher in Paris''s vile ''Hôtel X'', surviving on scraps and cigarette butts, living alongside tramps, a star-gazing pavement artist and a starving Russian ex-army captain. Exposing a shocking, previously-hidden world to his readers, Orwell gave a human face to the statistics of poverty for the first time - and in doing so, found his voice as a writer.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57305333367166,"sku":"NW9780141184388","price":9.65,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9780141184388.jpg?v=1780516915","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/down-out-in-paris-london-2","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}