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Summary: 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.Review Review Orwell - an old Etonian who later repudiated his privileged origins - describes the working class people he encountered in England in the 1930s: poor, unemployed, badly-fed and worse-housed. His essays reveal how those at the bottom of the pecking order were damaged; yet paradoxically, he is always a joy to read, because of his sharply perceptive eye, analytical mind, and coruscating prose. Reviewed by Angela Lambert (Kirkus UK)Biography 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.