Road to Wigan Pier

'It is only when you meet someone of a different culture from yourself that you begin to realize what your own beliefs really are.'

The Road to Wigan Pier is George Orwell's 1937 study of poverty and working-class life in northern England. It is the book which established Orwell as among Britain's foremost political and social commentators. It is, moreover, essential for any reader who wishes to gain a deeper understanding of Orwell's life, work and legacy.

This non-fiction work set the tone for Orwell's subsequent career, by focusing on class relations within Britain and political solutions to social problems. The Road to Wigan Pier has remained widely read since his death, running to several editions, and providing a point of comparison for later social and political commentaries

List of contents

• Introduction


• Note on the Text


• Select Bibliography


• Chronology


• The Road to Wigan Pier


• Appendix: Photographs


• Explanatory Notes

About the author

Selina Todd, Professor of Modern History at St Hilda's, Oxford, is the author of Young women, work, and family in England, 1918-1950 (Oxford, 2005) (winner of the Women's History Network annual book prize), The People: the rise and fall of the working class, 1910-2010 (John Murray, 2014) and Tastes of Honey: The Making of Shelagh Delaney and a Cultural Revolution (Vintage, 2019).

Summary

The Road to Wigan Pier is Orwell's 1937 study of poverty and working-class life in northern England.

Product details

• Authors: George Orwell
• Assisted by: Selina Todd (Editor), Selina (Professor of Modern History Todd (Editor), Todd Selina (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 07.01.2021
• EAN: 9780198850908
• ISBN: 978-0-19-885090-8
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: Oxford World's Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); SOCIAL SCIENCE / Poverty & Homelessness, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Essays, Poverty & unemployment, Social discrimination & inequality, Literary essays, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination, Poverty and precarity, Social discrimination and social justice