Книга: The Road to Wigan Pier (Orwell George); Harpercollins, 2021

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 uncomfortable discussing.

The Road to Wigan Pier cemented ideas that would be found in Orwell's later works, and remains a powerful portrait of poverty, injustice and class divisions in Britain to this day.

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Параметр	Значение
ISBN	9780008442682
Автор(ы)	Orwell George
Вес	0.18
Возрастное ограничение	16+
Год издания	2021
Жанр	биографии и мемуары
Издатель	Harpercollins
Издательство	HarperCollins
Кол-во страниц	248
Количество книг	1
Количество страниц	248
Обложка	мягкая обложка
Серия	Collins Classics
Тип обложки	мягкая