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Product Identifiers
PublisherHarperCollins
ISBN-100156767503
ISBN-139780156767507
eBay Product ID (ePID)56781
Product Key Features
Number of Pages256 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameRoad to Wigan Pier
Publication Year1972
SubjectPolitical Ideologies / Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism, Social Classes & Economic Disparity, Sociology / General, Economic Conditions, General
FeaturesReprint
TypeNot Available
Subject AreaPolitical Science, Reference, Social Science, Business & Economics
AuthorGeorge Orwell
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.7 in
Item Weight7.5 Oz
Item Length8 in
Item Width5.3 in
Additional Product Features
LCCN58-010888
Dewey Edition23
TitleLeadingThe
Dewey Decimal305.562094276
Edition DescriptionReprint
Intended AudienceTrade
SynopsisA journalistic investigation into England's working class poverty and a critique of democratic socialism in the 1930s from the author of 1984 and Animal Farm., 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., Before he authored the dystopian 1984 and the allegorical Animal Farm, George Orwell was a journalist, reporting on England's working class -- an investigation that led him to examine democratic socialism. In the 1930s, the Left Book Club, a socialist group in England, sent George Orwell to investigate the poverty and mass unemployment in the industrial north of England. Once there, he went beyond the requests of the book club, to investigate the employed as well. Orwell chose to live as the coal miners did -- sleeping in foul lodgings, subsisting on a meager diet, struggling to feed a family on a dismal wage, and going down into the hellish, backbreaking mines. What Orwell saw clarified his feelings about socialism, and in The Road to Wigan Pier, he pointedly tells why socialism, the only remedy to the shocking conditions he had witnessed, repelled "so many normal decent people." "Orwell's code was a simple one, based on truth and 'deceny'; he was important -- and original -- because he insisted on applying that code to his own Socialist comrades as well as to the class enemy...It is the best sociological reporting I know."--The New Yorker