Although George Orwell grew up in the relative comfort of the
English middle class, his socialist convictions and general sense
of fairness led him to hate his country''s deeply ingrained class
structure. That perspective permeates this book, but the most
striking elements are the quotidian details of life that Orwell
observes in his first-person account of the lives of coal miners
and others in the poor north of England. Wigan Pier is
almost too realistic at times, as Orwell brings his un
內容簡介：
In the 1930s Orwell was sent by a socialist book club to
來源：香港大書城megBookStore,http://www.megbook.com.hk investigate the appalling mass unemployment in the industrial north
of England. He went beyond his assignment to investigate the
employed as well-”to see the most typical section of the English
working class.” Foreword by Victor Gollancz.
關於作者：
GEORGE ORWELL 1903-1950was born in India and served
with the Imperial Police in Burma before joining the Republican
Army in the Spanish Civil War. Orwell was the author of six
novelsas well as numerous essays and nonfiction works.
目錄：
Books by George Orwell
DOWN AND OUT IN PARIS AND LONDON 1933
BURMESE DAYS 1934
A CLERGYMAN''S DAUGHTER 1935
KEEP THE ASPIDISTRA FLYING 1936
THE ROAD TO WIGAN PIER 1937
HOMAGE TO CATALONIA 1938
COMING UP FOR AIR 1939
INSIDE THE WHALE AND OTHER ESSAYS 194o
THE LION AND THE UNICORN 1941
ANIMAL FARM 1945
DICKENS, DALI 8c OTHERS 1946
NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR 1949
SHOOTING AN ELEPHANT AND OTHER ESSAYS 1950
SUCH, SUCH WERE THE JOYS 1953
THE ORWELL READER: FICTION, ESSAYS, AND REPORTAGE
THE COLLECTED ESSAYS, JOURNALISM AND LETTERS
OF GEORGE ORWELL 4 vols. 1968
A COLLECTION OF ESSAYS 1971
NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR: THE FACSIMILE 1984
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