The Road to Wigan Pier by George Orwell

The Road to Wigan Pier

George Orwell

256 pages first pub 1937 (editions)

nonfiction classics history politics informative reflective slow-paced
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In the 1930s Orwell was sent by a socialist book club to investigate the appalling mass unemployment in the industrial north of England. He went beyond his assignment to investigate the employed as well-"to see the most typical section of the Engl...

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informative 90%
reflective 71%
challenging 45%
dark 24%
sad 20%
inspiring 15%
emotional 13%
hopeful 8%
funny 5%
tense 3%
adventurous 2%

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medium 44%
fast 7%

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