Wigan Pier Revisited
A brilliant exposé of poverty and politics in Britain.
In 1937 George Orwell published The Road to Wigan Pier, an account of his famous ''urban ride'' among the people and places of the Great Depression. Fifty years later we lived through a second Great Depression, and this time the journey north was made by a woman - like Orwell a journalist and a socialist, but, unlike him, working class and a f...
A brilliant exposé of poverty and politics in Britain.
In 1937 George Orwell published The Road to Wigan Pier, an account of his famous ''urban ride'' among the people and places of the Great Depression. Fifty years later we lived through a second Great Depression, and this time the journey north was made by a woman - like Orwell a journalist and a socialist, but, unlike him, working class and a f...
