The Road to Wigan Pier by George Orwell

The Road to Wigan Pier

George Orwell

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nonfiction classics history politics informative reflective slow-paced

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To find out how industrial workers lived, Orwell not only observed but shared their experience. Orwell stayed in dreary lodgings and subsisted on their scant diet. He went down into coal mines and walked for three miles crouching as the miners did...

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