The road to Wigan Pier
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The road to Wigan Pier
（Penguin twentieth-century classics）
Penguin in association with Secker & Warburg, 1989
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The road to Wigan Pier / George Orwell
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The road to Wigan Pier / George Orwell
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"This ed. first published by Secker & Warburg in the Complete works of George Orwell series 1986; published in Penguin books with an introduction and a new note on the text 1989"
First published: London : Gollancz, 1937 ; Uniform ed. published: London : Secker & Warburg, 1959
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Description
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 time
Orwell'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
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