![]() "Victor could not bear to reject it, even though his suggestion that the 'repugnant' second half should be omitted from the Club edition was turned down. When this was refused Gollancz wrote an introduction to the book. Orwell states plainly that he himself is in favour of socialism, but feels it necessary to point out reasons why many people who would benefit from socialism, and should logically support it, are in practice likely to be strong opponents.Īccording to Orwell biographer Bernard Crick, publisher Victor Gollancz first tried to persuade Orwell's agent to allow the Left Book Club edition to consist solely of the descriptive first half of the book. 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 ![]()
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