The Road to Wigan Pier (Translation Classic)
About This Novel
What kind of person was a prophet before he became a prophet? "He did what Engels did in the mid-19th century." A social record of a cold mind and a sincere conscience. In the 1930s, commissioned by a left-wing book club, Orwell went to the industrial areas of northern England to investigate and record the real situation of the working class. Orwell did more than just investigate; he went down to the deepest part of the mine, lived in dilapidated and dirty workers' houses, and used the tip of his pen to vividly describe every aspect of the coal miners' lives. Reading it today, 80 years later, is still shockingly real. The despair and poverty conveyed by this picture have a terrifying power that transcends time and national boundaries. At the same time, the Road to Wigan Pier is also Orwell's road to socialism as he examines his own inner self. Born in the British middle class, he recalled how he gradually began to doubt and then hated the strict class barriers that divided British society at that time. Because in his mind, socialism ultimately means only one concept: "justice and freedom."
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