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The Road to Wigan Pier (Collins Classics) by George Orwell (Paperback, 2021)
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HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. If there is one man to whom I do feel myself inferior, it is a coalminer. In the mid-1930s, George Orwell was given an assignment from his publisher - to write a book about unemployment and social conditions in the economically depressed north of England. Revolutionary for its time, The Road to Wigan Pier documents Orwell's stint in towns likes Barnsley, Sheffield and Wigan in 1936, where he met and observed working-class people living in the bleak industrial heartlands of Yorkshire and Lancashire. Orwell graphically and emphatically describes the hardships of ordinary people living in cramped slum housing, working in dangerous mines and growing hungry through malnutrition and social injustice. It is an honest, gripping and humane study that also looks at socialism as a solution to the problems facing working-class northerners - something many readers at the time were uncomfortable discussing. The Road to Wigan Pier cemented ideas that would be found in Orwell's later works, and remains a powerful portrait of poverty, injustice and class divisions in Britain to this day.Product Identifiers
PublisherHarperCollins
ISBN-139780008443825
eBay Product ID (ePID)18046562467
Product Key Features
Book TitleThe Road to Wigan Pier (Collins Classics)
AuthorGeorge Orwell
FormatPaperback
LanguageEnglish
TopicLiterary Theory
Publication Year2021
TypeTextbook
GenreBiographies & True Stories
Number of Pages256 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height178mm
Item Width111mm
Item Weight90g
Additional Product Features
Title_AuthorGeorge Orwell
Topic AreaEconomic Sociology, Social Organisations
Series TitleCollins Classics
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
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- 04 Aug, 2021
Social history in UK
First hand reporting of living in poverty in the 1930’s in the UK. Fascinating but sad. Only slight criticism is the small font size in this particular edition.Verified purchase: YesCondition: New
- 06 Sep, 2024
Roas to Wigan pier, George Orwell
Very compelling read, interesting social history of how life was between the wars how people lived worked and survivedVerified purchase: YesCondition: New
- 29 Sep, 2021
great
interesting bookVerified purchase: YesCondition: New
- 25 May, 2022
Things change little over time in politics.
Was a very informative piee of work.Verified purchase: YesCondition: New
- 28 Sep, 2021
Brings back memories
Excellent classic bookVerified purchase: YesCondition: New
- 08 Dec, 2022
Road to Wigan pier
Very good bookVerified purchase: YesCondition: New
- 27 Mar, 2022
Very good reading
Bought for someone else but told good readVerified purchase: YesCondition: New
