{"product_id":"road-to-wigan-pier","title":"Road to Wigan Pier: New Annotated Edition (Alma Classics)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn January 1936, the thirty-two-year-old George Orwell left his home in London and travelled to the industrial north of England with the intention of experiencing first-hand the conditions in which the working-class poor were compelled to live their lives. During his two-month expedition he visited Manchester, Wigan and Liverpool in the north-west, then Sheffield, Leeds and Barnsley in Yorkshire, recording his impressions as he went in a diary that would later form the basis of one of the most significant works of literary reportage ever written.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePart sociological survey, part polemic about the potential benefits of socialism – as well as the failures and idiosyncrasies of many of its middle-class exponents – The Road to Wigan Pier represents a unique record of a country riven by class inequality and plagued by unemployment, inadequate housing, unsafe working conditions and other social ills, and provides an invaluable insight into the evolution of Orwell's political consciousness.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Alma Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43605854322753,"sku":"9781847499196","price":15.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0125\/3179\/3984\/files\/9781847499196.jpg?v=1772063350","url":"https:\/\/qagoma.store\/products\/road-to-wigan-pier","provider":"QAGOMA Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}