ISBN: 9780156767507 - The Road to Wigan Pier: (authorized Orwell Edition): A Mariner Books Classic (78 results)

Paperback. Condition: Fair. When Orwell went to the north of England in the thirties to find out how industrial workers lived, he not only observed but shared in their experience. He stayed in cramped, dreary lodgings and subsisted on the scant, cheerless diet of the poor. He went down into the coal mines and walked crouching, as the miners did, through a one- to three-mile passage too low to stand up in. He watched the back-breaking, dangerous labor of men whose net pay then averaged $575 a year. And he knew the unemployed, those who had been out of work for so long they had sunk beyond despair into an inhuman apathy. In his searing yet beautiful account of life on the bottom rung, Orwell asks himself why socialism--which alone, he felt, could conserve human values from the ravages of industrialism--had so little appeal. His answer was a harsh critique of the socialism and socialists of his time.…

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Paperback. Condition: Fair. When Orwell went to the north of England in the thirties to find out how industrial workers lived, he not only observed but shared in their experience. He stayed in cramped, dreary lodgings and subsisted on the scant, cheerless diet of the poor. He went down into the coal mines and walked crouching, as the miners did, through a one- to three-mile passage too low to stand up in. He watched the back-breaking, dangerous labor of men whose net pay then averaged $575 a year. And he knew the unemployed, those who had been out of work for so long they had sunk beyond despair into an inhuman apathy. In his searing yet beautiful account of life on the bottom rung, Orwell asks himself why socialism--which alone, he felt, could conserve human values from the ravages of industrialism--had so little appeal. His answer was a harsh critique of the socialism and socialists of his time.…

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Softcover. Condition: Good. 1st thus. 232 pages, soft cover. Covers have some minor scuffing and edge wear, but are in overall good condition. Interior pages are clean and bright. Binding is solid. The first part of this book vividly documents the shocking poverty, unemployment, and grim, dangerous conditions of the working class in industrial northern England during the 1930s, focusing on miners and dilapidated housing. In the second part he presents a critical analysis of socialism, defending it as a necessary solution while criticizing the middle-class intellectuals who champion it, arguing for a more relatable commonsense approach rooted in justice and liberty to unite society against fascism. Contains some markings by the previous owner in blue pen throughout.…

Condition: good. This book is in Good condition. There may be some notes and highlighting but otherwise the book is in overall good condition.

Paperback. Condition: New. 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.…

Paperback or Softback. Condition: New. The Road to Wigan Pier. Book.

Condition: New.