The Road to Wigan Pier
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- Paperback
240 pages
- Release Date
26 April 2001
Summary
A Descent into Darkness: Orwell’s ‘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 unemploy…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141185293 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0141185295 |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
| Author: | George Orwell, Richard Hoggart, Peter Davison |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Edition: | 01000th |
| Release Date: | 26 April 2001 |
| Weight: | 210g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 15mm |
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About The Author
George Orwell
Eric Arthur Blair (George Orwell) was born in India in 1903. He was educated at Eton, served with the Indian Imperial Police in Burma, and worked in Britain as a private tutor, schoolteacher, bookshop assistant and journalist. In 1936, Orwell went to fight for the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War and was wounded. In 1938 he was admitted into a sanatorium and from then on was never fully fit. George Orwell died in London in 1950.
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