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The Road to Wigan Pier (Penguin Modern Classics) (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for The Road to Wigan PierPresents an account of the author's observations of working-class life in the bleak industrial heartlands of Yorkshire and Lancashire in the 1930s. It provides descriptions of social injustice, cramped slum housing, dangerous mining conditions, squalor, hunger and growing unemployment.
Full description- Publisher: PENGUIN CLASSICS
- Published: 01 December 2007
- Format: Paperback 240 pages
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- Categories: Literary Essays | Social Issues & Processes | Social Groups | Marxism & Communism | Social & Cultural History
- ISBN 13: 9780141185293 ISBN 10: 0141185295
- Sales rank: 5,994
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Full description for The Road to Wigan Pier
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.
