> Skip to content
Play sample
  • Published: 28 May 2014
  • ISBN: 9780141395456
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 224
  • RRP: $21.00

The Road to Wigan Pier




An account of Orwell's observations of working class life in 1930s England, in a stunning new cover look for his great works

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.

  • Published: 28 May 2014
  • ISBN: 9780141395456
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 224
  • RRP: $21.00

About the author

George Orwell

George Orwell (1903–1950) is one of England's most famous writers and social commentators. He is the author of the classic political satire Animal Farm and the dystopian masterpiece Nineteen Eighty-Four. He is also well known for his essays and journalism, particularly his works covering his travels and his time fighting in the Spanish Civil War. His writing is celebrated for its piercing clarity, purpose and wit and his books continue to be bestsellers all over the world.

Also by George Orwell

See all

Praise for The Road to Wigan Pier

True genius ... all his anger and frustration found their first proper means of expression in Wigan Pier

Peter Ackroyd, The Times