The Road to Wigan Pier
George Orwell • 1937
Devastation Rating
poverty political literary fiction injustice
Our Take
Orwell goes north and watches people live in ways the south would rather not know about, then turns on the people who sent him to look. A book uncomfortable for everyone it concerns. The coal mine descent remains the most physically present passage in documentary fiction.
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