The Road to Wigan Pier: The Internationally Best Selling Author of Animal Farm and 1984 (Collins Classics) by Orwell, George - 2021-01-21

HarperCollins, 2021. Paperback. Very Good. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Harper Collins Publishers , pp. 256 . Papeback. New.

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Collins, 2021. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. Highlighter Markings. In poor condition, suitable as a reading copy. Pen markings. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,200grams, ISBN:9780008443825

New. HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. If there is one man to whom I do feel myself inferior, it is a coalminer. In the mid-1930s, George Orwell was given an assignment from his publisher - to write a book about unemployment and social conditions in the economically depressed north of England. Revolutionary for its time, The Road to Wigan Pier documents Orwell's stint in towns likes Barnsley, Sheffield and Wigan in 1936, where he met and observed working-class people living in the bleak industrial heartlands of Yorkshire and Lancashire. Orwell graphically and emphatically describes the hardships of ordinary people living in cramped slum housing, working in dangerous mines and growing hungry through malnutrition and social injustice. It is an honest, gripping and humane study that also looks at socialism as a solution to the problems facing working-class northerners - something many readers at the time were… Read More

London, England: HarperCollins, 2021. Soft cover. Like New. 12mo - 6.75 to 7.75" tall. Like New - no creasing to the spine, looks unread with contents clean, bright and tight.