The Road to Wigan Pier [electronic resource]
Orwell, George2001
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His graphically unforgettable descriptions of social injustice, cramped slum housing, dangerous mining conditions, squalor, hunger and growing unemployment are written with unblinking honesty, fury and great humanity. It crystallized the ideas that would be found in Orwell's later works and novels, and remains a powerful portrait of poverty, injustice and class divisions in Britain.Includes illustrations, explanatory footnotes, and an introduction by Richard Hoggart.
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[Place of publication not identified] : Penguin, 2001
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1 online resource (1 text file)
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Penguin Book of the British Short Story
ISBN:
9780141913889
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English
BRN:
4148070