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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When Orwell went to the north of England in the thirties to find out how industrial workers lived, he not only observed but shared in their experience. He stayed in cramped, dreary lodgings and subsisted on the scant, cheerless diet of the poor. H...

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