{"product_id":"down-out-in-paris-london-9","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":57319899464062,"sku":"NW9780141393032","price":8.48,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9780141393032.jpg?v=1778655487","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/down-out-in-paris-london-9","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}