The Road To Wigan Pier

George Orwell

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Edité par HarperCollins Publishers Inc, US, 2021

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Before he authored the dystopian 1984 and the allegorical Animal Farm, George Orwell was a journalist, reporting on England's working class - an investigation that led him to examine democratic socialism. In the 1930s, during the Great Depression era, the Left Book Club, a socialist group in England, sent George Orwell to investigate the poverty and mass unemployment in the industrial north of England. Once there, he went beyond the requests of the book club, to investigate the employed as well. Orwell chose to live as the coal miners did - sleeping in foul lodgings, subsisting on a meager diet, struggling to feed a family on a dismal wage, and going down into the hellish, backbreaking mines.What Orwell saw clarified his feelings about socialism, and in The Road to Wigan Pier, this political classic pointedly tells why socialism, the only remedy to the shocking conditions he had witnessed, repelled "so many normal decent people.""Orwell's code was a simple one, based on truth and 'deceny'; he was important - and original - because he insisted on applying that code to his own Socialist comrades as well as to the class enemy.It is the best sociological reporting I know."-The New YorkerInvestigative Journalism: Go beyond reporting as Orwell lives among the coal miners in England's industrial north-sleeping in their foul lodgings, surviving on their meager diet, and descending into the mines.Unflinching Social Commentary: The second half of the book pivots from reporting to a sharp, provocative critique of the socialist movement and why it often fails to connect with the very people it aims to help.The British Working Class: A powerful and empathetic look at the lives of miners, mill-workers, and the unemployed, painting a stark picture of poverty and resilience in the 1930s.A Foundational Political Classic: From the celebrated author of 1984 and Animal Farm, this work is an essential piece of social history that solidified Orwell's political thought.

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Titre
The Road To Wigan Pier
Auteur
George Orwell
Éditeur
HarperCollins Publishers Inc, US
Année de publication
2021
État de l'article
New
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Paperback
Langue
anglais
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0156767503
ISBN à 13 chiffres
9780156767507
Poids de l'article
213 grammes

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