Book Review: The Road to Wigan Pier by George Orwell

BOOK REVIEW

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
THE CONTEXT OF THE BOOK...................................................................................................1
THE AUTHOR................................................................................................................................2
THE BACKGROUND AND PERSPECTIVE................................................................................2
METHODOLOGY AND METHODS............................................................................................3
THE BOOK ITSELF.......................................................................................................................4
THE LEGACY OF THE BOOK.....................................................................................................6
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
The main purpose of this report is to provide review of book ‘The Road to Wigan Pier by
George Orwell’. This book documents authors work in his sociological investigations of the
bleak living conditions among all the working- class people living in Yorkshire and Lancashire
in the industrial north of England before World War II (Orwell, 2021). In this book review
context of the book will be provided in order to explain what the book is basically about. Then
background information of author will be provided so that people can gain understanding of
author and his work. Then in this Background and Perspective of author and his findings within
book will be explained. After this methodology and methods chosen by author for this social
research within pros and cons of chosen methods will be provided. After this, overview of book
will be provided and explanation of legacy of the book will also be evaluated. Lastly book
review will be concluded by summing up main points of the report. Method of investigation that
will be used for reviewing this book is literature review in which overview of the book will be
provided, authors points of view will be provided and evaluated as well.
THE CONTEXT OF THE BOOK
This book was published in 1937 as Left Book Club selection and a cloth bound trade
edition. 1919 to 1939 was known as interwar period of Britain in which relative stability of
Britain was not stable. Britain was affected severely due to great depression both economically
and politically. Its social and cultural effects were no less staggering as economy of every
country as affected unemployment was increasing. Every country in the world was affected due
to this. Similar social situation was explained in book The Road to Wigan Pie by George Orwell.
This study explained and studied unemployment in the depressed areas of the north of England
and explained what he had witnessed. He has further explained national unemployment workers
movement by explaining housing conditions, effects of poverty, malnutrition and unemployment
on the lives of ordinary people. Providing explanation of living conditions among all the
working- class people living in Yorkshire and Lancashire in the industrial north of England
before World War II was one o the main genre of author (Orwell, 2021). He had not only
focused upon explaining living conditions of people, but also explained ways in which
unemployment affected living condition of people of Yorkshire and Lancashire of England
before World War II.
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