The Road to Wigan Pier

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Description: Amazon.com Review Although George Orwell grew up in the relative comfort of the English middle class, his socialist convictions and general sense of fairness led him to hate his country's deeply ingrained class structure. That perspective permeates this book, but the most striking elements are the quotidian details of life that Orwell observes in his first-person account of the lives of coal miners and others in the poor north of England. Wigan Pier is almost too realistic at times, as Orwell brings his unparalleled powers of observation to portray the wretched conditions of the working class. That Orwell may have slanted his re ... (more)

Manufacturer: Mariner Books
Release date: 18 October 1972
ISBN-10 : 0156767503 | ISBN-13: 9780156767507

Tags: England (1), 1950s (1), Poverty (1), Coal Miners (1)

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