Sarah Green reviewed The road to Wigan Pier. by George Orwell
Review of 'The road to Wigan Pier.' on 'Goodreads'
4 stars
What I like about this is how much Orwell's personality comes through.
Electronic resource
English language
Published July 15, 2008 by Penguin Group UK.
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 impact over time. His graphically unforgettable descriptions of social injustice, cramped slum housing, dangerous mining conditions, squalor, hunger and growing unemployment are written with unblinking honesty, fury and great humanity. It crystallized the ideas that would be found in Orwell's later works and novels, and remains a powerful portrait of poverty, injustice and class divisions in Britain.
What I like about this is how much Orwell's personality comes through.