num_pages: 215
description: A searing account of George Orwell’s experiences of working-class life in the bleak industrial heartlands of Yorkshire and Lancashire, 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, slum housing, mining conditions, squalor, hunger and growing unemployment are written with unblinking honesty, fury and great humanity.
language: English
title: The Road to Wigan Pier
titlecomplete: The Road to Wigan Pier
characters: Ezra Pound, Ezra Pound, Oswald Mosley, George Orwell, Aldous Huxley, H.G. Wells, Mrs Brooker, Aldous Huxley, T.S. Eliot, H.G. Wells, Mr Brooker, G.K. Chesterton, George Orwell, Alf Smith, Oswald Mosley, D.H. Lawrence
genres: Politics, Nonfiction, Biography, Economics, Literature, Classics, British Literature, Sociology, History, Journalism
ratings_count: 23031
places: Yorkshire, England, Lancashire, England
publisher: Penguin Classics