The Road to Wigan Pier

Zusatztext 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. Informationen zum Autor Eric Arthur Blair (1903-1950), better known by his pen-name, George Orwell , was born in India, where his father worked for the Civil Service. An author and journalist, Orwell was one of the most prominent and influential figures in twentieth-century literature. His unique political allegory Animal Farm was published in 1945, and it was this novel, together with the dystopia of Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), which brought him world-wide fame. His novels and non-fiction include Burmese Days, Down and Out in Paris and London, The Road to Wigan Pier and Homage to Catalonia . Klappentext Eric Arthur Blair (George Orwell) was born in India in 1903. He was educated at Eton, served with the Indian Imperial Police in Burma, and worked in Britain as a private tutor, schoolteacher, bookshop assistant and journalist. In 1936, Orwell went to fight for the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War and was wounded. In 1938 he was admitted into a sanatorium and from then on was never fully fit. George Orwell died in London in 1950. Zusammenfassung George Orwell's searing account of working-class life in the bleak industrial heartlands of Yorkshire and Lancashire in the 1930s, The Road to Wigan Pier is a brilliant and bitter polemic that has lost none of its political impact over time Orwell's graphically unforgettable descriptions of social injustice, cramped slum housing, dangerous mining conditions, squalor, hunger and growing unemployment are written with unblinking honesty, fury and great humanity. It crystallized the ideas that would be found in his later works and novels, and remains a powerful portrait of poverty, injustice and class divisions in Britain. Includes illustrations, explanatory footnotes, and an introduction by Richard Hoggart ...

Product details

• Authors: Peter Davison, Richard Hoggart, George Orwell
• Assisted by: Richard Hoggart (Introduction)
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 26.04.2001
• EAN: 9780141185293
• ISBN: 978-0-14-118529-3
• No. of pages: 240
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 195 mm x 15 mm
• Series: Penguin Classics; Modern Classics; Penguin Modern Classics; Penguin Modern Classics; Penguin Classics; Modern Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Sozialanthropologie, Arbeiterklasse, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Poverty & Homelessness, Poverty & unemployment, Autobiography: literary, North & North East England, Social classes, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Classes & Economic Disparity, c 1919 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), Autobiography: writers, North West England, North and North East England, Poverty and precarity