The Road to Wigan Pier

September 14, to September -- 2020  Orwell wrote this book at the request of the "Left Book Club" which commissioned books and sold them at reasonable prices to club members and others in order to educate the liberal and laboring classes.  He delivered a work which was not quite the piece of culture that the club's editors wanted, but, to their credit, they put it out with just a short introductory piece from the editor, Victor Gollancz.  But their quibbles were clearly wrong.  Anyone who isn't a socialist before they read Wigan Pier will be one after.

This was Orwell's last published work before he left for Spain to fight in the Civil War.

From "Road to Wigan Pier":  "Here is this frightful business of crawling to and fro, which to any normal person is a hard day's work in itself;  and it is not part of the miner's work at all, it is merely an extra, like the City man's daily ride in the Tube."