{"product_id":"9780141184388","title":"Down and Out in Paris and London","description":"\u003cp\u003e Author(s): Orwell, George, Murphy, Dervla \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Paperback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 27\/09\/2001,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 256 pages,\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9780141184388,\u003cbr\u003e Description: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGeorge 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'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 '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":"Griffin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":34372567924780,"sku":"9780141184388","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0379\/1365\/7388\/files\/9780141184388.jpg?v=1759678247","url":"https:\/\/www.griffinbooksonline.pro\/products\/9780141184388","provider":"Griffin Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}