{"product_id":"down-and-out-in-paris-and-london-9780141184388","title":"Down and Out in Paris and London","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): George Orwell\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\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.\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.' \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45083368259735,"sku":"9780141184388","price":325.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780141184388.webp?v=1769201213","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/down-and-out-in-paris-and-london-9780141184388","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}