The road to wigan pier book6/12/2023 ![]() ![]() He was commisioned by an organisation called the Left Book Club to carry out a report on the living conditions of the unemployed in England’s industrial North. The Road To Wigan Pier continues in this vein, but was written several years later after Orwell had established himself as a writer and distilled his outrage into a coherent socialist philosophy. He ended up spending much time amongst the working class, and the result of that was his excellent book Down And Out In Paris And London, which I read last year and greatly enjoyed. I wanted to submerge myself, to get right down among the oppressed, to be one of them and on their side against the tyrants.” He decided he wanted “to escape not merely from imperialism but from every form of man’s dominion over man. ![]() The Road To Wigan Pier by George Orwell (1937) 232 p.Īfter returning from Burma in 1927, George Orwell found that his beliefs and prejudices had been completely upturned after witnessing the evil brutality of the British imperial system. ![]()
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