{"product_id":"9780141393032","title":"Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell","description":"George Orwell's vivid memoir of his time living among the desperately poor and destitute, Down and Out in Paris and London is a moving tour of the underworld of society.   'You have talked so often of going to the dogs - and well, here are the dogs, and you have reached them.' Written  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  'H?tel 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.\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback \/ softback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43201489010866,"sku":"9780141393032","price":7.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/products\/9780141393032_228ba19b-6878-41de-a3d5-a602404f9b46.jpg?v=1698868647","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9780141393032","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}