{"product_id":"road-to-wigan-pier","title":"Road To Wigan Pier","description":"\u003cp\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57213992173950,"sku":"NW9781847499196","price":8.53,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781847499196.jpg?v=1778534455","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/road-to-wigan-pier","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}