基本信息·出版社：Penguin Classics ·页码：240 页 ·出版日期：2001年04月 ·ISBN：0141185295 ·条形码：9780141185293 ·装帧：平装 ·正文语种：英 ...
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基本信息·出版社：Penguin Classics
·页码：240 页
·出版日期：2001年04月
·ISBN：0141185295
·条形码：9780141185293
·装帧：平装
·正文语种：英语
·丛书名：Penguin Modern Classics
·外文书名：通往维根码头之路
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A searing account of George Orwell’s observations of working-class life in the bleak industrial heartlands of Yorkshire and Lancashire in the 1930s, The Road to Wigan Pier is a brilliant and bitter polemic that has lost none of its political impact over time. His graphically unforgettable descriptions of social injustice, cramped slum housing, dangerous mining conditions, squalor, hunger and growing unemployment are written with unblinking honesty, fury and great humanity. It crystallized the ideas that would be found in Orwell’s later works and novels, and remains a powerful portrait of poverty, injustice and class divisions in Britain.
作者简介 Eric Arthur Blair (George Orwell) was born in India in 1903. He was educated at Eton, served with the Indian Imperial Police in Burma, and worked in Britain as a private tutor, schoolteacher, bookshop assistant and journalist. In 1936, Orwell went to fight for the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War and was wounded. In 1938 he was admitted into a sanatorium and from then on was never fully fit. George Orwell died in London in 1950.
编辑推荐 Amazon.com Review 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 unparalleled powers of observation to portray the wretched conditions of the working class. That Orwell may have slanted his reporting to make things look worse than they were is a question that does not lessen the book's interest.
--This text refers to the Paperback edition. Review When I first read this book, I was truly shocked. I could not believe the hardships people faced as coal miners. The poverty, diet, living conditions were absolutely appalling. Reading this book, helps to explain how the world got to where it is today. So much of what is in this book has been forgotten. Reading this will allow you to see why the industrial nations had to change.
Also available from Download eBooks: George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-four, Animal Farm Down and Out in Paris and London, all highly recommended. --This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition.
