Orwell’s England

Orwell, George

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This volume includes the complete text of The Road to Wigan Pier – Orwell’s vivid and impassioned documentary of unemployment and proletarian life – as well as Orwell’s best writing on the political and social condition of England.

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Publish Date: 01/10/2020

Description

Including The Road to Wigan Pier

‘No one wrote better about the English character than Orwell’ New York Review of Books

Much of George Orwell’s best writing, brought together in this collection, is concerned with his complex, often contradictory attitude to England. In the brilliantly perceptive The English People, he lists the national characteristics as ‘suspicion of foreigners, sentimentality about animals, hypocrisy, exaggerated class distinctions and an obsession with sport’. The Road to Wigan Pier, his blistering account of poverty in the north of England, and many of his essays, attack what he called ‘the most class-ridden country under the sun’, while other writings here ruminate on the merits of cricket, gardening, roast dinners, pubs, tea and seaside postcards.

Edited by Peter Davison with an Introduction by Ben Pimlott

Additional information

Weight 340 g
Dimensions 198 × 129 × 21 mm
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Imprint

Cover

Paperback

Pages

xxii, 432 , 32 unnumbered of plates

Language

English

Edition
Dewey

942.082 (edition:23)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K