The Road to Wigan Pier
Author(s): George Orwell
Presents an account of the author's observations of working-class life in the bleak industrial heartlands of Yorkshire and Lancashire in the 1930s. It provides descriptions of social injustice, cramped slum housing, dangerous mining conditions, squalor, hunger and growing unemployment.
General Information
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- : Penguin Books, Limited
- : Penguin Books, Limited
- : 0.23
- : 01 February 2001
- : 198mm X 129mm X 15mm
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Other Specifications
- : George Orwell
- : Paperback
- : 1
- : English
- : 941.083
- : 272
- : Essays, journals, letters & other prose works; Social & cultural history; Social issues
- : 32 plates
- : 32 plates
More About The Product
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.