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The Road to Wigan Pier by George Orwell

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The Road to Wigan Pier (1937) by George Orwell is a sociological look at living conditions in the industrial north of England before World War II. "At one time on one of the little muddy canals that run round the town, there used to be a tumble-down...


Author Biography

Name: George Orwell
Birth Date: June 25, 1903
Death Date: January 21, 1950
Place of Birth: Motihari, India
Place of Death: London, England
Nationality: British
Gender: Male
Occupations: writer, novelist, essayist

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Biography of George Orwell
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The British novelist and essayist George Orwell (1903-1950) is best known for his satirical novels Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-four. George Orwell was born Eric Arthur Blair at Motihari, Bengal, India. His father, Richard Walmesley Blair, was a minor...
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Biography of George Orwell
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George Orwell's remarkable international reputation is primarily due to his last two novels, Animal Farm (1945) and Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), which have spoken to the Cold War consciousness with such force and intimacy that conceptions such as Big Bro...
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Biography of George Orwell
10378 words, approx. 34.6 pages
George Orwell's remarkable international reputation is primarily due to his last two novels, Animal Farm (1945) and Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), which have spoken to the Cold War consciousness with such force and intimacy that conceptions like Big Brothe...
 


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The Road to Wigan Pier was written by George Orwell and published in 1937. It is a sociological analysis of living conditions in the industrial north of England before World War II that was commissioned by the Left Book Club in January 1936. Orwell...


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The Washington Post
Wigan Pier's Revaped Road; The Town Orwell Exposed Builds on Its Notoriety
09/10/1991: 1,305 words, approx. 4 pages
Sometimes the past is a curious legacy: The harsher it is, the more valuable its memory. Or so this former coal-mining capital in northwestern England has learned as it has sought to come to grips with its troubled history and with the famous author...
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The Independent - London
Letter: We're back on the road to Wigan Pier
12/05/1996: 260 words, approx. 1 pages
Sir: Paul Ashton suggests that malnutrition in Britain today is due more to fecklessness on the part of benefit claimants than to inadequate levels of benefit (letters, 3 December). He goes on to describe a meal produced for less than pounds 1.50 per head....
 


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