{"product_id":"9780141395456","title":"The Road to Wigan Pier by George Orwell","description":"A  searing account of George Orwell's observations 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 time. His 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 Orwell's later works and  novels, and remains a powerful portrait of poverty, injustice and class  divisions in Britain.   Published with an introduction by Richard Hoggart in Penguin Modern Classics.   'It  is easy to see why the book created and still creates so sharp an  impact ... exceptional immediacy, freshness and vigour, opinionated and  bold ... Above all, it is a study of poverty and, behind that, of the  strength of class-divisions'Richard Hoggart\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback \/ softback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56225509015925,"sku":"9780141395456","price":8.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780141395456.jpg?v=1762231465","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9780141395456","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}