{"product_id":"9780141185293","title":"The Road to Wigan Pier","description":"\u003cp\u003e Author(s): Orwell, George, Hoggart, Richard, Davison, Peter \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Paperback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 24\/02\/2001,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 240 pages,\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9780141185293,\u003cbr\u003e Description: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGeorge Orwell's searing account 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 timeOrwell's 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 his later works and novels, and remains a powerful portrait of poverty, injustice and class divisions in Britain.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIncludes illustrations, explanatory footnotes, and an introduction by Richard Hoggart\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Griffin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43697939611692,"sku":"9780141185293","price":8.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0379\/1365\/7388\/files\/9780141185293.jpg?v=1722608175","url":"https:\/\/www.griffinbooksonline.co.uk\/products\/9780141185293","provider":"Griffin Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}