Left Book Club Anthology
Publisher: Victor Gollancz Ltd.
Published: January 1, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780575072213
Subjects: Collections & anthologies of various literary forms; Other prose: from c 1900 -; Socialism & left-of-centre democratic ideologies; Politics/International Relations; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Political Science; British Isles; Socialism; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; General; Political Ideologies - Communism & Socialism; GREAT BRITAIN_POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT_20TH CENTURY; History / Great Britain; Literary Collections / Essays; SOCIAL HISTORY_20TH CENTURY; SOCIALISM_GREAT BRITAIN; Literary collections
First sentence: It was Gollancz's idea to send George Orwell (1903-50) north to report on poverty and unemployment in Britain's industrial towns: Orwell was to enter the world of the working class, as he had become a tramp and outcast to write Down and Out in Paris and London.