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 am writing it because there is some kind of lie that I must expose, some fact that needs to be brought to attention ... ”This is how Orwell's four autobiographical stories that made up this book were written.
“Glorious, gloriously we frolicked” - about childhood and study at St. Cyprian's school; Orwell said that he “transferred the sounds, smells and colors of his school childhood to the fantastic London 1984”, and “the suffering of students in English schools is an analogy for a person’s helplessness before totalitarian power.” "Pounds of Dash in Paris and London" - about the wrong side of life in the backyards of brilliant Paris, where he worked as a dishwasher in a hotel, and about the world of London vagabonds and beggars, among whom Orwell lived for three years, sleeping under bridges and in shelters for the homeless ... "Road on Wigan Pierce" - about the north of England, at the same time a poetic and industrial land, and about the hardships of the life of miners, the working class, "humiliated and insulted" - to whose suffering the socialist writer could not remain indifferent. Finally, "In Memory of Catalonia" - perhaps one of his most burning and honest texts - is about the civil war in Spain, where Orwell went to fight as a militia.

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Publication language: Russian

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