by George Orwell · Penguin Classics · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140182385
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«The Road to Wigan Pier» is George Orwell's social criticism essay, published by Penguin Classics in paperback (240 pages, in English).
Account of the commission the Left Book Club gave George Orwell in 1936 to investigate working-class life in Yorkshire and Lancashire. It describes misery, unsanitary housing, mining, hunger and unemployment, and reflects on class divisions in interwar England.
1989 edition in the Twentieth-Century Classics series, with an introduction by Richard Hoggart and the thirty-two illustrations from the first edition.
Work of interest to readers of sociopolitical essays, British social history and literary journalism.
Eric Arthur Blair was an English novelist, poet, essayist, journalist, and critic who wrote under the pen name of George Orwell. His work is characterised by lucid prose, social criticism, opposition to all totalitarianism, and support of democratic socialism.
