內容簡介
Modern Classics Road To Wigan Pier (Penguin Modern Classics)
by George Orwell (Author), Richard Hoggart (Foreword)
當時33歲的喬治·奧威爾隻身前往伯明翰、曼徹斯特、威根、設菲爾德等地進行階級狀況調查。在隨後的兩個多月裡，他融入在當地的煤礦工人、流浪者等群體之中，與他們同吃同住，近距離觀察他們的工作、生活狀況，並記錄下自己的所思所想。
𝘙𝘰𝘢𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘞𝘪𝘨𝘢𝘯 𝘗𝘪𝘦𝘳 是一部喬治·奧威爾親身紀實的藍領生活觀察與犀利針砭，也因這部作品使他遭受當時的英國情報部門對他進行了長達十二年（1936—1948）的監視。
Before he authored the dystopian 1984 and the allegorical Animal Farm, George Orwell was a journalist, reporting on England's working class — an investigation that led him to examine democratic socialism. In the 1930s, the Left Book Club, a socialist group in England, sent George Orwell to investigate the poverty and mass unemployment in the industrial north of England. Once there, he went beyond the requests of the book club, to investigate the employed as well. Orwell chose to live as the coal miners did — sleeping in foul lodgings, subsisting on a meager diet, struggling to feed a family on a dismal wage, and going down into the hellish, backbreaking mines. What Orwell saw clarified his feelings about socialism, and in The Road to Wigan Pier, he pointedly tells why socialism, the only remedy to the shocking conditions he had witnessed, repelled "so many normal decent people." "Orwell's code was a simple one, based on truth and 'deceny'; he was important — and original — because he insisted on applying that code to his own Socialist comrades as well as to the class enemy...It is the best sociological reporting I know."—The New Yorker
尺寸: 12.93 x 1.65 x 19.71 cm
頁數: 240頁
作者介紹
George Orwell (1903–1950), the pen name of Eric Arthur Blair, was an English novelist, essayist, and critic. He was born in India and educated at Eton. After service with the Indian Imperial Police in Burma, he returned to Europe to earn his living by writing. An author and journalist, Orwell was one of the most prominent and influential figures in twentieth-century literature. His unique political allegory Animal Farm was published in 1945, and it was this novel, together with the dystopia of 1984 (1949), which brought him worldwide fame.
