George Orwell: The Road to Wigan Pier

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Beschreibung

In January 1936, the thirty-two-year-old George Orwell left his home in London and travelled to the industrial north of England with the intention of experiencing first-hand the conditions in which the working-class poor were compelled to live their lives. During his two-month expedition he visited Manchester, Wigan and Liverpool in the north-west, then Sheffield, Leeds and Barnsley in Yorkshire, recording his impressions as he went in a diary that would later form the basis of one of the most significant works of literary reportage ever written.

Part sociological survey, part polemic about the potential benefits of socialism - as well as the failures and idiosyncrasies of many of its middle-class exponents - The Road to Wigan Pier represents a unique record of a society riven by class inequality and plagued by unemployment, inadequate housing, unsafe working conditions and other social ills, as well as providing an invaluable insight into the evolution of Orwell's political consciousness.

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George Orwell

Zusammenfassung

A perfect companion to Animal Farm, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Keep the Aspidistra Flying, Homage to Catalonia, Burmese Days, Coming Up for Air, A Clergyman's Daughter and Down and Out in Paris and London (Orwell Collection)

Erscheinungsjahr:	2024
Genre:	Geschichte , Importe
Jahrhundert:	20. Jahrhundert
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
ISBN-13:	9781847499196
ISBN-10:	1847499198
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Orwell, George
Hersteller:	Alma Books Ltd. Alma Classics
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	197 x 127 x 21 mm
Von/Mit:	George Orwell
Erscheinungsdatum:	08.2024
Gewicht:	0,244 kg