- Social conditions, Socialism, Unemployed, Working class
A searing account of George Orwell's observations 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.
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- Author
- George Orwell
- First published
- 1724
- Pages
- 230
- Publisher
- Alfa Yayinlari, Dom Wydawniczy Bellona, V. Gollancz ltd.
- Editions
- 138
- Language
- und, Polish, English, French
- ISBN
- 9798589792034
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“THE FIRST SOUND in the mornings was the clumping of the mill-girls' clogs down the cobbled street.”
George Orwell, originally born as Eric Arthur Blair, was an English novelist and journalist. His work is marked by keen intelligence and wit, a profound awareness of social injustice, an intense, revolutionary opposition to totalitarianism, a passion for clarity in language and a belief in democratic socialism. ([Source][1].) [1]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Orwell
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