The road to Wigan Pier.

Description

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.

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Series Statement

• Complete works of George Orwell -- v. 5

Other Editions

• The road to Wigan Pier.Secker & Warburg1986-01-01
• The Road to Wigan PierHardcoverSecker & Warburg1959-01-01
• The road to Wigan PierPenguin Books in association with Secker & Warburg1962-01-01
• The road to Wigan PierHeinemann Educational1965-01-01
• Road to Wigan Pier.Heinemann1965-01-01
• The road to Wigan PierBerkley Medallion Book1967-01-01