The Road to Wigan Pier
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The Road to Wigan Pier is a 1937 non-fiction book by George Orwell that documents the harsh living conditions of the English working class in the industrial North and reflects on socialism in Britain.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Road to Wigan Pier canonical | 4 |
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
book
ⓘ
non-fiction book ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | George Orwell ⓘ |
| author | George Orwell ⓘ |
| commissionedBy | Left Book Club ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| deweyDecimalClassification | 335.4 ⓘ |
| firstEditionFormat | hardcover ⓘ |
| followedBy | Homage to Catalonia ⓘ |
| genre |
non-fiction
ⓘ
political writing ⓘ social commentary ⓘ |
| hasIllustrations | yes ⓘ |
| hasInfluenced |
discourse on class in Britain
ⓘ
later socialist and political writing ⓘ |
| hasPart |
first part documenting working-class living conditions
ⓘ
second part reflecting on socialism ⓘ |
| includedInSeries | Left Book Club selections ⓘ |
| libraryOfCongressClassification | HX246 .O7 ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | British social realism ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
class inequality
ⓘ
conditions of miners ⓘ critique of middle-class socialists ⓘ housing conditions ⓘ nature of socialism ⓘ poverty ⓘ unemployment ⓘ |
| mediaType | print ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | first-person ⓘ |
| notableFor |
analysis of British socialism
ⓘ
detailed reportage on working-class life ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| pageCount | approximately 240 ⓘ |
| placeDescribed |
Lancashire
ⓘ
Wigan ⓘ Yorkshire ⓘ industrial North of England ⓘ |
| precededBy | Keep the Aspidistra Flying ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1937 ⓘ |
| publisher | Victor Gollancz Ltd ⓘ |
| setInPeriod | interwar period ⓘ |
| structure | two-part book ⓘ |
| subject |
industrial North of England
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living conditions of the poor ⓘ socialism in Britain ⓘ working class in England ⓘ |
| timeOfSetting | 1930s ⓘ |
| writtenBy |
George Orwell
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surface form:
Eric Arthur Blair
|
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.