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- Sales Rank: #1914310 in Books
- Published on: 1937
- Released on: 1937-01-01
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Paperback
- 150 pages
Fair condition paperback with moderate wear. Contents are toned with spotting in places. Cover has soiling and creasing
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By Neasa MacErlean
This astounding piece of journalism is loved as much for its clear-eyed research as it is disliked for the astounding confession that the young Orwell found the working class 'physically repulsive'. Like other middle- and upper-class children, he says, he was told "The working classes smell. That was what we were taught...". Don't hold it against him, though. This is an honest self-analysis of how prejudice grows. Orwell, researching in 1936, was trying to understand both poverty and why the only solution he saw for it — Socialism — was reviled by the ruling classes.His research on poverty shows Dickensian-like character portraits. For instance, talking of the landlord of his Wigan B&B-tripe shop, he says: "I never saw anyone who could peel potatoes with quite such an air of brooding resentment". The landlord was also "incapable of understanding that last year's dead bluebottles in the shop window are not good for trade". And like journalist-novelist Dickens, he uncovers stunning facts - that few of the 20 million underfed people in England (about half the population) kept their teeth beyond childhood, that miners often 'travelled' underground up to three hours before they got to the coal face and started getting paid, that the poor lived in the "ugliness of industrialism' and so on. Many of these issues still apply. The giant slag heaps he described still distort the Wigan landscape, and Scholes in Wigan (one of the areas he went to) is still a problem area.Orwell was way ahead of his time - noting how the 'rise of cheap luxuries' (such as cheap chocolate and tinned salmon) was keeping revolution at bay, how the working class was being weaned onto a gambling addiction (through the Football Pools) and how bad food habits were stoking up future problems. He wrote: "We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine gun."Turning to why Socialism was so disliked by the political masters, he urged them not to be put off by its associations with urbanisation and automation, and not to dislike Socialism because they disliked individual Socialists. He asked them to conquer their prejudices — such as the one about smell.I am reading this in parallel with its Italian rural counterpart, Carlo Levi's "Christ Stopped at Eboli". Both are written by people with extraordinary gifts for character description, something they share with Charles Dickens. What all three of them seem to say is that we can move into a better world if we open our eyes, become curious about our neighbours and try to drop our prejudices.
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By reader 451
Even though I had not realised before reading it that The Road to Wigan Pier is not a novel but an extended essay, I was not disappointed. The book, which treats of the condition of the working class in 1930s Britain, is half descriptive and half political pamphlet. The first part applies Orwell's matchless powers of depiction to the slums of Wigan, its coal mines, its social housing estates. It is based on the author's experience living for several months among ordinary working families. The scenes from the bottom of the coal pits are particularly grabbing. In typical Orwell fashion, they make repeated simple but striking points: coal miners invariably had to walk for several miles underground just to get to their jobs, for example, and this meant navigating long, narrow passageways where in most places a human being cannot stand. The strain on the legs was such that untrained visitors could only hope to get there, after interminable creeping, exhausted and probably injured. And this was before several hours spent shovelling tons of coal even began.The second part of the book consists of a call to arms in favour of socialism. This was the great depression, and capitalism looked rather beat. Europe also faced the threat of fascism. Here the interest is historical, specifically in Orwell's own path but also in the contemporary ideological context. Orwell's pamphlet shows how an intellectual of great lucidity, honesty, and intelligence could have believed in the superiority of socialism. Inevitably Orwell makes false predictions ('The Socialists are right, therefore, when they claim that the rate of mechanical progress will be much more rapid once Socialism is established.' (page 192)). But he has many interesting observations on technical progress, human psychology, and culture, amid rich private reflexions on the meaning of class. The point in the choice of Wigan pier for a title is that the pier has become derelict and been destroyed. Yet Orwell would continue on his political journey. Next in line was Homage to Catalonia, also an Orwell must-read, describing his experience in Spain and concomitant disillusionment with the communist camp. It seems Orwell was subsequently impressed with the Conservative government's stand on the right side of WWII, completing his ideological conversion. At the same time, his affections remained with the British working class. The Road to Wigan Pier makes clear why.
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By JRF
If you enjoyed "1984" and "Animal Farm", and want to read more of Orwell's superb prose, this work of non-fiction is unlikely to disappoint. In the first part, the author pulls no punches in his searing description of the appalling conditions in which many North of England working class people lived between the two world wars. The second part is a sympathetic survey of socialism - a system Orwell would later turn strongly against. Being very much rooted in how things looked at the time, this part is perhaps less accessible to modern readers, but is certainly of historical interest.Overall, very highly recommended.
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