The Road To Wigan Pier

George Orwell
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A searing account of George Orwell’s experiences of working-class life in the bleak industrial heartlands of Yorkshire and Lancashire, The Road to Wigan Pier is a brilliant and bitter polemic that has lost none of its political impact over time. His graphically unforgettable descriptions of social injustice, slum housing, mining conditions, squalor, hunger and growing unemployment are written with unblinking honesty, fury and great humanity.
Genres: NonfictionHistoryClassicsPoliticsSociologyLiteratureBiographyEconomicsAudiobookJournalism
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