{"product_id":"down-and-out-in-paris-and-london-6","title":"Down and Out in Paris and London","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.\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.","brand":"Penguin Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57029626397007,"sku":"9780141393032","price":13.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0061\/0372\/8217\/files\/9780141393032_1-down-and-out-in-paris-and-london.jpg?v=1771052552","url":"https:\/\/www.suomalainen.com\/products\/down-and-out-in-paris-and-london-6","provider":"Suomalainen.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}