Road to Wigan Pier

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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.

Book details and technical specifications

Format: Paperback / softback
ISBN13: 9780141185293
Published: April 2001

Number of pages: 240
Width: 129 mm
Height: 198 mm
Depth: 15 mm

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd