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George Orwell’s ‘The Road to Wigan Pier’ is an argument for socialism in the social context of the time, and presents an intensely classist society, published 3

George Orwell’s ‘The Road to Wigan Pier’ is an argument for socialism in the social context of the time, and presents an intensely classist society, published 36 years after Victoria died. It’s a very interesting book: a snapshot of how people lived, whose lives were rarely portrayed in literature.

kergonath 5y ago
Not to mention “Down and out in Paris and London”. Again, as you say, intensely classist.
- dTal 5y ago
  As was 1984... were there any Orwell books that weren't classist?
  - kergonath 5y ago
    Indeed, though 1984 is ostensibly fiction, as is Animal Farm. Down and Out is gripping because there is no such excuse. Workhouses existed. He wrote in reaction to his times and he did not invent that much…