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The Road to Wigan Pier

George Orwell

Paperback | Pages: 215 pages

Rating: 3.9 | 14273 Users | 969 Reviews

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Title	:	The Road to Wigan Pier
Author	:	George Orwell
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Penguin Modern Classics
Pages	:	Pages: 215 pages
Published	:	April 26th 2001 by Penguin Classics (first published March 1937)
Categories	:	Nonfiction. History. Classics. Politics

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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.

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Original Title:	The Road to Wigan Pier
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	H.G. Wells, Ezra Pound, Oswald Mosley, George Orwell, Aldous Huxley, D.H. Lawrence, T.S. Eliot, G.K. Chesterton, Mrs Brooker, Mr Brooker, Alf Smith, Ezra Pound, Oswald Mosley, George Orwell, Aldous Huxley, H.G. Wells
Setting:	Yorkshire, England(United Kingdom) Lancashire, England

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Much like Hemingway's lost satchel or Genet's samizdat manuscripts, I'll piece this together from jumbled memories. How's that for hubris? The Road To Wigan Pier was amongst the best books I've read this year. The route established by Orwell is more sinuous than expected. He examines a lodging house and then travels to the pits themselves. He finds valor in those who toil. He doesn't patronize. He ponders the unemployment issue in England. He busts myths. He unrolls lengths of statistics. He

The squalid living and working conditions of 1930s Northern miners. A tract on socialism. Classic Georgie.

Set in two distinctive parts I found the first to be the most interesting. Orwell painted a bleak picture of conditions for miners in the north of England. The working class didn't have it easy by any means. Dangerous working conditions, poor pay and even lesser prospects.......and then there were the slums. Visual and descriptive writing. Also enjoyed what Orwell had to say about some of his fellow authors and his take on world affairs. Interesting and informative.

Fascinating and still relevant. The narration seemed wrong at first, but I think was perfect. This book is a bizarre mix of raw statistics, moving stories, humorous opinions, and clever political strategies.

As with 'Down and Out in Paris and London', this book is a strange mix of incredibly timely observations about inequality and class paired with outmoded language and troubling social views. There is no doubt that Orwell, like the vast majority of his contemporaries, was homophobic. Similarly Orwell's discussion of racial difference, even when trying to make the point that viewing whites as superior is ridiculous, is objectifying and cringe-worthy. Still, when it comes to class, Orwell's views

This was definitely a book of two halves. The first section was reminiscent of Down and Out in Paris and London, although not as interesting. The second half was very representative of Orwell's essays, of which I've read most. So, where does that leave me feeling about this book? I didn't like it so much. I felt like I'd read most of it before and so that lessoned my enjoyment. I didn't learn anything knew here, but I still appreciated what Orwell had to say and think it's a worthwhile read if

The Road to Wigan Pier FAQsBack in the days when I hung out in that other dimension called usenet, I wrote several *FAQS* for alt.books.george-orwell (alas, now dead, a repository for villainous spam - RIP):Q & A with George Orwell:B: Will you tell us about the Brookers, the people with whom you stayed for a while in Wigan? O: Of course - mind if I smoke? - Mrs Brooker was too ill to do anything except eat stupendous meals, and Mr Brooker was a dark, small-boned, sour, Irish-looking man, and