The Road to Wigan Pier

Submitted By - angelrodriguez

Author - George Orwell

Status - Read

Summary: The book grapples with the social and historical reality of Depression suffering in the north of England, – Orwell does not wish merely to enumerate evils and injustices, but to break through what he regards as middle-class oblivion, – Orwell's corrective to such falsity comes first by immersion of his own body – a supreme measure of truth for Orwell – directly into the experience of misery.