The Road to Wigan Pier

by George Orwell

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In the 1930s Orwell was sent by a socialist book club to investigate the appalling mass unemployment in the industrial north of England. He went beyond his assignment to investigate the employed as well-"to see the most typical section of the English working class." Foreword by Victor Gollancz.
  • ISBN10 0436350270
  • ISBN13 9780436350276
  • Publish Date 30 March 1987 (first published 8 March 1936)
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 10 August 2021
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher Vintage Publishing
  • Imprint Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd
  • Edition Complete ed
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 272
  • Language English