{"product_id":"9780141393032-down-and-out-in-paris-and-london","title":"Down and Out in Paris and London","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDocuments the author's 'first contact with poverty'. This title shows a world of unrelenting drudgery and squalor - sleeping in bug-infested hostels and doss houses of last resort, working as a dishwasher in Paris' vile 'Hotel X', surviving on scraps and cigarette butts, living alongside tramps, a star-gazing pavement artist and more.\u003cbr\u003e\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\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40942979252321,"sku":"9780141393032","price":7.23,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_34355296_7d905ca5-3d14-4a05-acb6-faaffac7514d.jpg?v=1747286938","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780141393032-down-and-out-in-paris-and-london","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}