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brunjact 's review for:
The Road to Wigan Pier
by George Orwell
The book's back cover mentions that the book commissioners got more than they bargained for, and I think that so did this reader. The book is divided in two parts. The first part addresses the reality of the English coal miners in the 1930s. I was very touched by their conditions of the miners, the mines, the business revolving the coal towns, and the unemployment around England. In the second part of the author depicts the idiosyncrasies of Socialism and Fascism, and the unavoidable class struggle. Although instructive, it felt this totally out of place since it doesn't make a connection to the coal miners ever again.
My interest in the book was for the miners and mines, and for that the first part sufficed.
My interest in the book was for the miners and mines, and for that the first part sufficed.