{"product_id":"9781846976582","title":"Down and Out in Paris and London : New Edition of Orwell’s vivid and groundbreaking memoir","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor: George Orwell\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eLondon, Greater London\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 4 January 2024 by Birlinn General (Polygon An Imprint of Birlinn Limited) in the United Kingdom.\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003ch4\u003ePaperback | 256 pages\u003cbr\u003e130 x 198 x 23mm | 230g\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003chr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublished in 1933, and still relevant today, Orwell’s first full-length work is a compassionate and insightful description of the life of the working poor in Paris and the homeless in London.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten when Orwell was a struggling writer in his twenties, he vividly documents a world of unrelenting squalor – sleeping in bug-infested hostels and doss houses, working as a plongeur in a Paris hotel, surviving on scraps and cigarette butts, living alongside tramps, a pavement artist and a starving Russian ex-army captain.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eExposing 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\u003cp\u003e'Orwell was the great moral force of his age' – Spectator\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"George Orwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":64837878939997,"sku":"9781846976582","price":7.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1074\/9358\/9341\/files\/9781846976582.jpg?v=1780053635","url":"https:\/\/adventureintobooks.co.uk\/products\/9781846976582","provider":"Adventure Into Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}