{"product_id":"9781846976582","title":"Down and Out in Paris and London : New Edition of Orwell's vivid and groundbreaking memoir by George Orwell","description":"Published in 1933, and still relevant today, Orwell's first full-length work is a compassionate and insightful description of the life of the working poor in Paris and the homeless in London.   Written when Orwell was a struggling writer in his twenties, he vividly documents a world of unrelenting squalor - sleeping in bug-infested hostels and doss houses, working as a plongeur in a Paris hotel, surviving on scraps and cigarette butts, living alongside tramps, a 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.   'Orwell was the great moral force of his age' - Spectator\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback \/ softback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56308284326261,"sku":"9781846976582","price":7.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781846976582.jpg?v=1762806985","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9781846976582","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}