{"product_id":"road-to-wigan-pier","title":"Road to Wigan Pier","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eRoad to Wigan Pier\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eGeorge Orwell\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e0156767503\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eMariner Books Classics\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e1972\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eFirst Edition\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e256\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eClean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003eIn the 1930s George 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. Not one to observe from the sidelines, Orwell shared the experiences of the coal miners, living in foul lodgings, subsisting on a meager diet, and going down into the hellish, back-breaking mines. \u003cp\u003eWhat he saw and recorded helped clarify his feelings about socialism. In this book he pointedly tells why socialism, the only remedy to the shocking conditions he had witnessed, repelled \"so many normal decent people.\" His rebuke was so stinging that it brought a rebuttal from one of his sponsors, published as a foreward to the original edition of \"The Road to Wigan Pier\" and also included here.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Mariner Books Classics","offers":[{"title":"Road to Wigan Pier | George Orwell | Paperback | 0156767503 | Used: Very Good | Back Stacks H 1769804","offer_id":49518360658072,"sku":"1769804","price":10.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/71v88AfuQSL.jpg?v=1784621672","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/road-to-wigan-pier","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}