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In *The Road to Wigan Pier*, George Orwell chronicles his observations of the working class in the bleak industrial heartlands of Yorkshire and Lancashire during the 1930s. His vivid descriptions of cramped slum housing, hazardous mining conditions, squalor, hunger and rising unemployment portray social injustice and class divisions with unblinking honesty, fury, and humanity. The work crystallized themes that would appear in Orwell’s later books and remains a powerful portrait of poverty and inequality in Britain.
First publish date: 1937
Genre: Literary Fiction/Classic Literature
Authors: George Orwell
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