In 1936 George Orwell was commissioned to visit areas of mass unemployment in the North of England, and The Road to Wigan Pier is a powerful description of the poverty he witnessed there. A searing account of George Orwell’s observations of working-class life in the bleak industrial heartlands of Yorkshire and Lancashire in the 1930s, The Road to Wigan Pier is a brilliant and bitter polemic that has lost none of its political impact over time. His graphically unforgettable descriptions of social injustice, cramped slum housing, dangerous mining conditions, squalor, hunger and growing unemployment are written with unblinking honesty, fury, and great humanity. It crystallized the ideas that would be found in Orwell’s later works and novels and remains a powerful portrait of poverty, injustice and class divisions in Britain.
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- Hardcover: 156 pages
- Publisher: Lulu.com; First American Edition edition (June 29, 2008)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 140921141X
- ISBN-13: 978-1409211419
- Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.5 x 9 inches
- Shipping Weight: 12 ounces
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