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The Road to Wigan Pier is a book by the English writer George Orwell, first published in 1937. The first half of this work documents his sociological investigations of the bleak living conditions among the working class in Lancashire and Yorkshire in the industrial north of England before World War II .
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The Road to Wigan Pier (O Caminho para Wigan Pier [1] (título em Portugal) ou A Caminho de Wigan (título no Brasil)), foi um livro escrito por George Orwell e publicado em 1937. The Road to Wigan Pier divide-se em em duas partes, um travelogue que descreve a jornada de Orwell por três cidades nortenhas, e uma parte, muito mais ...
Orwell's classic work of social reportage and socialist polemic, based on his visit to Wigan in 1936. The book was published in 1937, while Orwell was fighting in Spain, and became a bestseller for the Left Book Club.
The Road to Wigan Pier. George Orwell, Richard Hoggart (Introduction) 3.92. 24,516 ratings1,951 reviews. In the 1930s, commissioned by a left-wing book club, Orwell went to the industrial areas of northern England to investigate and record the real situation of the working class.
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Photograph: Kurt Hutton/Getty Images. The Observer George Orwell. This article is more than 13 years old. The road to Wigan Pier, 75 years on. David Sharrock retraces George Orwell's...
The Road to Wigan Pier. work by Orwell. Learn about this topic in these articles: discussed in biography. In George Orwell: From The Road to Wigan Pier to World War II. …and unorthodox political treatise entitled The Road to Wigan Pier (1937).
An unflinching look at unemployment and life among the working classes in Britain during the Great Depression, The Road to Wigan Pier offers an in-depth examination of socio-economic...
