The Road to Wigan Pier
The Road to Wigan Pier
ISBN: 9780141185293
出版社: Penguin Classics
出版年: 2001-4-26
页数: 240
定价: GBP 9.99
装帧: Paperback
内容简介
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
乔治·奥威尔 1903—1950
英国伟大的人道主义作家、新闻记者、社会评论家。他一生颠沛流离，但始终以敏锐的洞察力和犀利的文笔记录着他所生活的时代，致力于维护人类自由和尊严，揭露、鞭笞专制和极权主义，并提出了超越时代的预言，因此他被尊称为“一代人的冷峻良知”。