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  • By: George Orwell
  • Narrated by: Michael Obiora
  • Length: 8 hrs and 23 mins
  • 4.3 out of 5 stars (21 ratings)
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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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New insights on Orwell and society

New insights on Orwell and society, this books made me realise again how problems from decades ago are still relevant to our current society. Orwell did actually spend time with people who make us having the comfort to listen to this book in our warm homes. It is worth remembering that and change our world accordingly

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Great book

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

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How Little Things Change!

A summary of working class life,and the failures of Socialism. Listen ,and identify how little has changed.

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