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The Road to Wigan Pier is a book by the English writer George Orwell, first published in 1937. The first half of this work documents his sociological investigations of the bleak living conditions among the working class in Lancashire and Yorkshire in the industrial north of England before World War II. The second half is a long essay on his ...
- George Orwell
- United Kingdom
- 1937
- Autobiography
The Road to Wigan Pier & 1984: A Parallel Analysis Commissioned fortuitously in the period when Socialism was on the retreat and Fascism on the rise, Orwell must already have begun to glimpse the world which he was to envision with vigorous clarity in ‘1984’. This review is a dual review then, of ‘1984’ and of ‘The Road to Wigan Pier’.
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From The Road to Wigan Pier to World War II. Orwell’s first socialist book was an original and unorthodox political treatise entitled The Road to Wigan Pier (1937). It begins by describing his experiences when he went to live among the destitute and unemployed miners of northern England, sharing and observing their lives; it ends in a series ...
The road to Wigan Pier, 75 years on. David Sharrock retraces George Orwell's journey that laid bare Britain's north-south divide, and finds a growing sense of hard times here again. S eventy-five ...
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Oct 18, 1972 · Down and Out in Paris and London was published in 1933. In 1936 he was commissioned by Victor Gollancz to visit areas of mass unemployment in Lancashire and Yorkshire, and The Road to Wigan Pier (1937) is a powerful description of the poverty he saw there. At the end of 1936 Orwell went to Spain to fight for the Republicans and was wounded.
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Title: The Road to Wigan Pier Author: George Orwell It is a pleasure to acknowledge that the text of this eBook was provided, free of charge, by <a
Orwell's classic work of social reportage and socialist polemic, based on his visit to Wigan in 1936. The book was published in 1937, while Orwell was fighting in Spain, and became a bestseller for the Left Book Club.
