{"product_id":"down-and-out-in-paris-and-london-17","title":"Down and Out in Paris and 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":"Penguin Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54220803866968,"sku":"9780141184388","price":16.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780141184388_429c987f-47e9-4973-87e7-83574b1cab83.jpg?v=1780384558","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/down-and-out-in-paris-and-london-17","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}