The Left Book Club edition, with the words not for sale to the public. Orwells 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 Road to Wigan Pier by George Orwell published by Victor Gollancz, London 1937. What Orwell saw clarified his feelings about socialism, and in The Road to Wigan Pier, he pointedly tells why socialism, the only remedy to the shocking conditions he had witnessed, repelled so many normal decent people.

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. Once there, he went beyond the requests of the book club, to investigate the employed as well. In the 1930s, 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. Book Synopsis Before he authored the dystopian 1984 and the allegorical Animal Farm, George Orwell was a journalist, reporting on Englands working class - an investigation that led him to examine democratic socialism. About the Book A journalistic investigation into Englands working class poverty and a critique of democratic socialism in the 1930s from the author of 1984 and Animal Farm. In January 1936 Orwell was commissioned by Victor Gollancz to make a study of unemployment in the depressed areas of the north of England and to write about.

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