The Road to Wigan Pier by Orwell, George, Hoggart, Richard, Davison, Peter

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Author: Orwell, George, Hoggart, Richard, Davison, Peter EnglandPublished on 26 April 2001 by Penguin Books Ltd (Penguin Classics) in the United Kingdom as part of 'the Penguin Mod ern Classics' series.Paperback | 240 pages198 x 129 x 16 | 230g 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 Show more