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Indlæser... The Road to Wigan Pier (Twentieth Century Classics S.) (original 1937; udgave 1989)af George Orwell
Work InformationThe Road to Wigan Pier af George Orwell (1937)
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Bliv medlem af LibraryThing for at finde ud af, om du vil kunne lide denne bog. Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog. A look into the difficult lives of the English working class in the early 20th century. Intelligent and insightful. A non-fiction classic written in 1936. This was a wonderful expose of working class life, mostly in the Yorkshire region, Barnsley, specifically. Orwell goes into great detail about those who mine. My favorite part was the description of the rooming houses in which many lived. It was a bit tedious when explaining the dole stipulations (of which there were dozens). In the end, the author was convinced that socialism was the way to go. He dropped this book off at the publishers on his way to fight in the Spanish Civil War. He had quite changed his mind about socialism by the time he returned home. A great read. It's only 99 cents on Amazon. (Kindle version) 202 pages This is a disappointing Orwell book that I couldn’t get through. It was a long section about mining and mines that proved too much for me; Orwell was down the mines several times, apparently, and experienced for himself how difficult it was, not the actual mining, but just the crawling for miles to where the coal could be got to. Orwell was tall, which didn’t make it easier. I didn’t see much about Wigan, if anything. Most of the paragraphs were long, which made the book even more unreadable. So, not a book I would recommend.
(Retracing...) Orwell said he would find little to interest him in Barnsley, which was a kindness compared to his verdict on Sheffield: "It seems to me, by daylight, one of the most appalling places I have ever seen." From his two months in the north, one image stayed with him above all others; a pale young woman "with the usual draggled, exhausted look … I thought how dreadful a destiny it was to be kneeling in the gutter in a back alley in Wigan, in the bitter cold, prodding a stick up a blocked drain. At that moment she looked up and caught my eye, and her expression was as desolate as I have ever seen; it struck me that she was thinking just the same as I was." We cannot know if he was right, but it seems a rare moment, in a book about human sympathy, of connection between the man raised to be an officer of the empire and the proletariat that, however much he wished to embrace, repelled him still. Jack Hilton, the man who set him on the road to Wigan, hated the book, judging it a failure and falling out with the author. "So George went to Wigan and he might have stayed at home. He wasted money, energy and wrote piffle," was his damning verdict. Victor Gollancz disagreed, but with strong reservations. He finally published it as part of the Left Book Club series, but included a foreword in which he rebutted Orwell's colourful views on the "fruit-drinkers" of the middle-class liberal elite, fearful that his readership might take offence. In a later edition, against the author's wishes, he deleted the polemical second section altogether.
En af George Orwells mest berømte reportager, der i hans vanlige enkle og skarpe stil, skildrer minearbejderes liv i 1936. Derudover er der et essay, hvor Orwell beskriver og analyserer det engelske klassesamfund. Han iblander skildringer fra sit eget liv og opvækst. For politisk og historisk interesserede No library descriptions found. |
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