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The Road to Wigan Pier

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4 out of 5
Based on 1,064 Ratings and 112 Reviews

Book Description
Although George Orwell grew up in the relative comfort of the English middle class, his socialist convictions and general sense of fairness led him to hate his country's deeply ingrained class structure. That perspective permeates this book, but the most striking elements are the quotidian details of life that Orwell observes in his first-person account of the lives of coal miners and others in th... More
Book Information
PublisherPenguin Young Readers Group
BindingAudio Cassette (58 editions)
Reading LevelUncategorized
# of Pages2
ISBN-100140862587
ISBN-13978-0140862584
Publication Date06/01/1997
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About Alex Jennings (Author, Contributor) : Alex Jennings is a published author and a narrator of children's books and young adult books. Some of the published credits of Alex Jennings include The Dark Is Rising Sequence, Book Two: The Dark Is ... more
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