The road to Wigan Pier
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The road to Wigan Pier
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"When I sit down to write a book," Orwell admitted, "I don't say to myself, 'I want to create a work of art.' I write it - because there is some lie I must expose, some fact I must draw attention to..." This is how Orwell's four autobiographical novellas that make up this book were written.
"Gloriously, Gloriously We Frolicked" is about childhood and schooling at St. Cyprian's School; Orwell said that he "transferred into the fantastic "London 1984" the sounds, smells, and colors of his school childhood," and "the suffering of pupils in English schools is an analogy of man's helplessness before totalitarian power." "Pounds of Dash in Paris and London" - about the underside of life on the backside of glittering Paris, where he worked as a dishwasher in a hotel, and the world of London's vagrants and beggars, among whom Orwell lived for three years, sleeping under bridges and in homeless lodgings ... "The Road to Wigan Pier" - about the north of England, both poetic and industrial land, and the hardships of life miners, working class, "humiliated and insulted" - to whose suffering the writer-socialist could not remain indifferent. Finally, "Memories of Catalonia" - perhaps one of his most searing and honest texts - is about the Spanish Civil War, where Orwell went to fight as a militiaman.
"Gloriously, Gloriously We Frolicked" is about childhood and schooling at St. Cyprian's School; Orwell said that he "transferred into the fantastic "London 1984" the sounds, smells, and colors of his school childhood," and "the suffering of pupils in English schools is an analogy of man's helplessness before totalitarian power." "Pounds of Dash in Paris and London" - about the underside of life on the backside of glittering Paris, where he worked as a dishwasher in a hotel, and the world of London's vagrants and beggars, among whom Orwell lived for three years, sleeping under bridges and in homeless lodgings ... "The Road to Wigan Pier" - about the north of England, both poetic and industrial land, and the hardships of life miners, working class, "humiliated and insulted" - to whose suffering the writer-socialist could not remain indifferent. Finally, "Memories of Catalonia" - perhaps one of his most searing and honest texts - is about the Spanish Civil War, where Orwell went to fight as a militiaman.
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