The 1937 novel ‘The Road to Wigan Pier’ was written by which British author?
The Road to Wigan Pier play by David Pownall, "Writing on Wigan Pier", with Adrian Scarborough as Orwell, was broadcast by BBC Radio Four in 2010. The Road to Wigan Pier The Road to Wigan Pier is a book by the British writer George Orwell, first published in 1937. The first half of this work documents his sociological investigations of the bleak living conditions among the working class in Lancashire and Yorkshire in the industrial north of England before World War II. The second half is a long essay on his middle-class upbringing, and the development of his political conscience, questioning British attitudes towards socialism.
The Road to Wigan Pier given today to the area around the canal at the bottom of the Wigan flight of locks on the Leeds and Liverpool Canal. The book was reviewed on 14 March 1937 by Edward Shanks, for "The Sunday Times", and by Hugh Massingham, for "The Observer". Harry Pollitt reviewed the book, vitriolically, for the 17 March 1937 issue of the "Daily Worker", though even he "was forced to concede some merit to its first part". In general, early reviewers of "The Road to Wigan Pier" praised Orwell's depiction of the working class in Part I. The poet Edith Sitwell wrote "the