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The Road to Wigan Pier Book

The Road To Wigan Pier : Paperback : HarperCollins Publishers Inc : 9780156767507 : 0156767503 : 10 May 2021 : Before he authored the dystopian 1984 and the allegorical Animal Farm, George Orwell was a journalist, reporting on England's working class - an investigation that led him to examine democratic socialism.Read More

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  • Amazon Review

    Although George Orwell grew up in the relative comfort of the English middle class, his socialist convictions and general sense of fairness led him to hate his country's deeply ingrained class structure. That perspective permeates this book, but the most striking elements are the quotidian details of life that Orwell observes in his first-person account of the lives of coal miners and others in the poor north of England. Wigan Pier is almost too realistic at times, as Orwell brings his unparalleled powers of observation to portray the wretched conditions of the working class. That Orwell may have slanted his reporting to make things look worse than they were is a question that does not lessen the book's interest.

  • Product Description

    In the 1930s Orwell was sent by a socialist book club to investigate the appalling mass unemployment in the industrial north of England. He went beyond his assignment to investigate the employed as well-”to see the most typical section of the English working class.” Foreword by Victor Gollancz.

  • 0156767503
  • 9780156767507
  • George Orwell
  • 18 October 1972
  • Mariner Books
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 264
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