The Road to Wigan Pier
by Orwell, George (fwd Victor Gollancz)
- Used
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Very good, 1st edition p/b (for Left Book Club), original orange wraps, some soiling to extremities and small tear to top of spi
- Seller
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About This Item
London: Victor Gollancz, 1937. 1st thus. p/b. Very good, 1st edition p/b (for Left Book Club), original orange wraps, some soiling to extremities and small tear to top of spine panel, ink owner inscription to free endpaper, b+w plates, vg, . 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). George Orwell's searing account 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. Orwell's 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 his later works and novels, and remains a powerful portrait of poverty, injustice and class divisions in Britain. (incl 32 b/w photographs)
Synopsis
The Road to Wigan Pier was written by George Orwell and published in 1937. The first half of this work documents his sociological investigations of the bleak living conditions amongst the working class in Lancashire and Yorkshire in the industrial north of England before World War II. The second half is a long essay of his middle-class upbringing, and the development of his political conscience, which includes a questioning of some aspects of British attitudes and behaviour regarding socialism.
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- Seller
- Inklings & Yarnspinners (GB)
- Seller's Inventory #
- IYC132948
- Title
- The Road to Wigan Pier
- Author
- Orwell, George (fwd Victor Gollancz)
- Format/Binding
- P/b
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good, 1st edition p/b (for Left Book Club), original orange wraps, some soiling to extremities and small tear to top of spi
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st thus
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Victor Gollancz
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1937
- Pages
- 264
- Size
- 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6"")
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- 1st, politics, sociology, Orwell, socialism, Gollancz
- Bookseller catalogs
- 2nd-hand books;
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