Road to Wigan Pier

¿ A new edition, with clear readable text¿ A new Life & Works written for this edition¿ Includes a Glossary of Gothic, Victorian and Literary terms¿ Part of our series of curated Fantastic Fiction classics

About the author

George Orwell, the pseudonym of Eric Arthur Blair, was born in Bengal, India, in 1903. He was educated at Eton, became a policeman in Burma but suffered and studied poverty. His great works, Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four, are a product of his hatred of totalitarianism. His legacy of writing and political thought is much admired today.

Débora Tavares has a master’s in George Orwell’s 1984 and a PhD about Orwell's Keep the Aspidistra Flying and The Road to Wigan Pier, both from the University of São Paulo. She researches and teaches connections between literature and society, as well as Orwell’s writings. Her publications include a postface for a Brazilian edition of 1984.

Summary

A new edition of Orwell's early account of bleak working class life in the industrial culture of Yorkshire and Lancashire, which revealed the distinctions between the upper classes of the British Empire and the reality of the people who worked in the factories to drive wealth and prosperity for others, never to get a share for themselves.

Foreword

A new edition of Orwell's early work, showing the origins of his commitment to social justice.

Product details

• Authors: George Orwell
• Assisted by: Débora Tavares (Introduction)
• Publisher: Flame Tree Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.08.2022
• EAN: 9781804172261
• ISBN: 978-1-80417-226-1
• No. of pages: 320
• Series: Essential Gothic, SF & Dark Fantasy; ESSENTIAL GOTHIC SF DARK FANTA
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > History; Fiction, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Classes, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain, autobiographies; George Orwell;