Orwell's England (Penguin Modern Classics) - Softcover

Orwell, George

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0141185171 ISBN 13: 9780141185170

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 2001

Synopsis

Paperback. Pub Date: 05 May 2001 Pages: 496 Publisher: Penguin Classics Collected together for the first TIME this volume includes The Complete text of The Road to Wigan Pier - Orwell's Vivid and Impassioned DOCUMENTARY of withunemployment and proletarian LiFe - AS well AS Orwell's best writing on the political and social condition of England.

About this title

About the Author:

Born in India in 1903 George Orwell moved to England with his family in 1907. He was educated at Eton and joined the Indian Imperial Police, serving five years in Burma before returning to Europe. The period of poverty that followed inspired DOWN AND OUT IN PARIS AND LONDON (1933). In 1937 he published THE ROAD TO WIGAN PIER. His political convictions led him to fight for the Republicans in Spain and to write HOMAGE TO CATALONIA. In 1945 ANIMAL FARM was published. Orwell died of TB in 1950.

Synopsis:

Containing "The Road to Wigan Pier", Orwell's account of poverty in Northern England, this title also includes "The English People", in which he lists the nation's characteristics, and his essays on class, the horrors of private school life, and the merits of cricket, gardening and pubs.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0141185171
• ISBN 13: 9780141185170
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 496
• Editor: Davison Peter