The Road to Wigan Pier by George Orwell

The Road to Wigan Pier

George Orwell

nonfiction classics history politics informative reflective slow-paced

224 pages | first published 1937

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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 impac...
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informative 92%
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challenging 40%
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