The Road to Wigan Pier
By George Orwell
(Mariner Books, Paperback, 9780156767507, 264pp.)
Publication Date: October 1972
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Categories: Europe - Great Britain - General, Political Ideologies - Communism & Socialism, Poverty
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In the 1930s Orwell was sent by a socialist book club to investigate the appalling mass unemployment in the industrial north of England. He went beyond his assignment to investigate the employed as well-”to see the most typical section of the English working class.” Foreword by Victor Gollancz.
GEORGE ORWELL (1903-1950) was born in India and served with the Imperial Police in Burma before joining the Republican Army in the Spanish Civil War. Orwell was the author of six novels as well as numerous essays and nonfiction works.
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