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The Road to Wigan Pier

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The Road to Wigan Pier

By: George Orwell, Richard Hoggart - introduction
Narrated by: Michael Obiora
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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

Orwell's graphically unforgettable descriptions of social injustice, cramped slum housing, dangerous mining conditions, squalor, hunger and growing unemployment are written with unblinking honesty, fury and great humanity. It crystallized the ideas that would be found in his later works and novels, and remains a powerful portrait of poverty, injustice and class divisions in Britain.

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 Essays Growing Up & Facts of Life Poverty & Homelessness Social Classes & Economic Disparity Social Sciences Sociology Socialism
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A summary of working class life,and the failures of Socialism. Listen ,and identify how little has changed.

How Little Things Change!

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Thoroughly enjoyed hearing the insights into life of the working class during that time. Very well articulated.

Great book

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