

The second half is a long essay on his middle-class upbringing, and the development of his political conscience, questioning British attitudes towards socialism.

The first half of this work documents his sociological investigations of the bleak living conditions among the working class in Lancashire and Yorkshire in the industrial north of England before World War II. The Road to Wigan Pier is a book by the English writer George Orwell, first published in 1937. (Left Book Club supplementary volume, Part I, with 32 pages of plates, published May 1937 ) 8 March 1937 as a Left Book Club selection and a cloth-bound trade edition
