The Road to Wigan Pier

George Orwell (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

240 Seiten

2021
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-885090-8 (ISBN)

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The Road to Wigan Pier is Orwell's 1937 study of poverty and working-class life in northern England.

'It is only when you meet someone of a different culture from yourself that you begin to realize what your own beliefs really are.'

The Road to Wigan Pier is George Orwell's 1937 study of poverty and working-class life in northern England. It is the book which established Orwell as among Britain's foremost political and social commentators. It is, moreover, essential for any reader who wishes to gain a deeper understanding of Orwell's life, work and legacy.

This non-fiction work set the tone for Orwell's subsequent career, by focusing on class relations within Britain and political solutions to social problems. The Road to Wigan Pier has remained widely read since his death, running to several editions, and providing a point of comparison for later social and political commentaries

Selina Todd, Professor of Modern History at St Hilda's, Oxford, is the author of Young women, work, and family in England, 1918-1950 (Oxford, 2005) (winner of the Women's History Network annual book prize), The People: the rise and fall of the working class, 1910-2010 (John Murray, 2014) and Tastes of Honey: The Making of Shelagh Delaney and a Cultural Revolution (Vintage, 2019).

Introduction
Note on the Text
Select Bibliography
Chronology
The Road to Wigan Pier
Appendix: Photographs
Explanatory Notes

Erscheinungsdatum	19.12.2020
Reihe/Serie	Oxford World's Classics
Zusatzinfo	33 black and white images
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	129 x 14 mm
Gewicht	182 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-19-885090-5 / 0198850905
ISBN-13	978-0-19-885090-8 / 9780198850908
Zustand	Neuware