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The Road to Wigan Pier
Paperback / softback
Main Details
Title |
The Road to Wigan Pier
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Authors and Contributors |
By (author) George Orwell
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Series | Penguin Modern Classics |
Physical Properties |
Format:Paperback / softback | Pages:224 | Dimensions(mm): Height 181,Width 111 |
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ISBN/Barcode |
9780141395456
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Classifications | Dewey:305.56209428 |
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Audience | General | Tertiary Education (US: College) | Professional & Vocational | |
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Publishing Details |
Publisher |
Penguin Books Ltd
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Imprint |
Penguin Classics
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Publication Date |
2 January 2014 |
Publication Country |
United Kingdom
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Description
An account of Orwell's observations of working class life in 1930s England, in a stunning new cover look for his great works 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.
Author Biography
Eric Arthur Blair (1903-1950), better known by his pen-name, George Orwell, was born in India, where his father worked for the Civil Service. An author and journalist, Orwell was one of the most prominent and influential figures in twentieth-century literature. His unique political allegory Animal Farm was published in 1945, and it was this novel, together with the dystopia of Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), which brought him world-wide fame. His novels and non-fiction include Burmese Days, Down and Out in Paris and London, The Road to Wigan Pier and Homage to Catalonia.
ReviewsTrue genius ... all his anger and frustration found their first proper means of expression in Wigan Pier -- Peter Ackroyd * The Times *
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