{"product_id":"9780141393032","title":"Down and Out in Paris and London","description":"Author: Orwell, George\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9780141393032\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Penguin UK\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 11 Feb 2013\u003cbr\u003ePages: 224 \u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOrwell's vivid memoir of his time among the desperately poor and destitute, in a stunning new cover look for his great works\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 '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.","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48145020911774,"sku":"UBD-9780141393032","price":16.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9780141393032.jpg?v=1786878603","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9780141393032","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}