Description
Product ID: | 9780141185293 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
Title: | The Road to Wigan Pier |
Authors: | Author: George Orwell |
Page Count: | 240 |
Subjects: | Literary essays, Literary essays, Social and cultural history, Social and ethical issues, Social & cultural history, Social issues & processes, England |
Description: | Select Guide Rating Deals with the 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. This title includes descriptions of social injustice, cramped slum housing, dangerous mining conditions, squalor, and more. 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 |
Imprint Name: | Penguin Classics |
Publisher Name: | Penguin Books Ltd |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2001-04-26 |