The Road to Wigan Pier

George Orwell, Richard Hoggart, Peter Davison

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Penguin
01 June 2001

Biography; Literary essays; Social & cultural history; Social issues & processes

Series: Penguin Modern Classics

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.

By: George Orwell
Notes by: Peter Davison
Introduction by: Richard Hoggart
Imprint: Penguin
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 15mm
Weight: 226g
ISBN: 9780141185293
ISBN 10: 0141185295
Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 01 June 2001
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Eric Arthur Blair (George Orwell) was born in India in 1903. He was educated at Eton, served with the Indian Imperial Police in Burma, and worked in Britain as a private tutor, schoolteacher, bookshop assistant and journalist. In 1936, Orwell went to fight for the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War and was wounded. In 1938 he was admitted into a sanatorium and from then on was never fully fit. George Orwell died in London in 1950.