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The Road to Wigan Pier

George Orwell, Richard Hoggart, Peter Davison

From Shelf: The books we read in 2012

Deals with the 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. This title includes descriptions of social injustice, cramped slum housing, dangerous mining conditions, squalor, and more.

George Orwell's searing account 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 timeOrwell's 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 his later works and novels, and remains a powerful portrait of poverty, injustice and class divisions in Britain.Includes illustrations, explanatory footnotes, and an introduction by Richard Hoggart

Format:
Paperback / softback
Pages:
240
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
ISBN:
9780141185293
Published Date:
26/4/2001
Dimensions:
198mm x 129mm x 15mm
Weight:
226g
Category:
Literary essays

RRP: £8.99

Format: Paperback / softback

ISBN: 9780141185293


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