The Road to Wigan Pier by George Orwell

The Road to Wigan Pier

George Orwell

256 pages first pub 1937 (editions)

nonfiction classics history politics informative reflective slow-paced

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In the 1930s Orwell was sent by a socialist book club to investigate the appalling mass unemployment in the industrial north of England. He went beyond his assignment to investigate the employed as well-"to see the most typical section of the Engl...

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informative 89%
reflective 67%
challenging 48%
dark 21%
sad 19%
emotional 13%
inspiring 11%
hopeful 8%
adventurous 3%
funny 3%
tense 3%

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medium 42%
fast 4%

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