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    The Road to Wigan Pier

    Written by George Orwell

    Narrated by Jonathan Keeble

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    About this audiobook

    Part social reportage, part socialist polemic, The Road to Wigan Pier sets out a hellish vision of a broken Britain before delivering a meditation on how we can create a more egalitarian society.


    Having travelled to the industrial north of England on assignment from his editor, Orwell's confronting, stark descriptions of the social injustice, cramped slum housing, squalor, hunger, and growing unemployment he encounters are written with unblinking honesty, anger, and humanity.


    The Road to Wigan Pier remains a powerful portrait of poverty, injustice, and the strive for a fairer society.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSNR Audio
    Release dateMar 4, 2021
    ISBN9781914230073
    Author

    George Orwell

    Eric Arthur Blair (George Orwell) was born in 1903 in India where his father was a civil servant. After studying at Eton, he served with the Indian Imperial Police in Burma for several years which inspired his first novel, Burmese Days. After two years in Paris, he returned to England to work as a teacher and then in a bookshop. In 1936 he travelled to Spain to fight for the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War, where he was badly wounded. During the Second World War he worked for the BBC. A prolific journalist and essayist, Orwell wrote some of the most influential books in English literature, including the dystopian Nineteen Eighty-Four and his political allegory Animal Farm. He died from tuberculosis in 1950.

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    • 5/5
      Possibly one of the best pieces of literature of the XX century - especially the analysis starting in Chapter 11. It is amazing how people keep doing, to this day, what Orwell advises against in his books.

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    • 5/5
      5 stars. It’s on Jordan Peterson’s reading list. Any audiobook that holds my attention until the very end gets that top rating.
    • 5/5
      After reading The Road to Wigan Pier, I realise why some books are classics. They carry timeless themes that seem to be relevant in every age. Though I don't agree with Orwell's every conviction, I must say he has written his views well. Nay, excellently.
    • 5/5
      The first half of the book Genuinely made me grateful for what i have and theres a couple of good soundbites through out, one of my favourites him admitting that even in his day ‘socialist’ is essentially synonymous with degenerate spastic