ENGLISH

The Road to Wigan Pier

By George Orwell

Book information

Publisher
Penguin Books in Association with Martin Seck
Year
2007
ISBN
0141185295, 9780141185293
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
7 MB (7575349 bytes)
Series
Penguin Modern Classics
Pages
240\0
Time added
2012-11-27 14:32:38

Description

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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