Orwell, George
The Road to Wigan Pier (Collins Classics) (Collins Classics)
- ISBN 13:
- 9780008443825
- author:
- Orwell, George
- format:
- Paperback / softback
- publisher:
- HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2021
- Pages:
- 256
- Dimensions:
- 17.8 x 11.1 x 1.6 centimeters (0
- Genre:
- Biography, Personal Memoirs, Nonfiction,
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 8 working days
Description
George Orwell's The Road to Wigan Pier is a powerful and thought-provoking account of his experiences in the economically depressed north of England in the mid-1930s. In 1936, Orwell was tasked with documenting unemployment and social conditions in towns such as Barnsley, Sheffield, and Wigan, where he met and observed working-class people living in cramped slum housing and working in dangerous mines. Orwell's graphic and empathetic descriptions of the hardships faced by ordinary people are both honest and gripping, offering a searing portrayal of poverty, injustice, and class divisions in Britain. His observations on socialism as a potential solution to the problems facing working-class northerners were groundbreaking at the time, and remain a relevant and thought-provoking commentary on social inequality to this day. This book is a seminal work that cemented ideas that would later appear in Orwell's other writings, and remains a powerful and thought-provoking study of poverty and social injustice.
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