![]() ![]() Our empathy and humanity is aroused and fortified. ![]() ![]() These high definition descriptions are utterly compelling and shocking. He opens with superb but harrowing descriptions of life as a lodger in shared housing in the depressed North of England between the wars, and then of several trips into the coal mines to get a sense of working conditions. Spoiler Alert: Orwell very strongly criticises (and mocks) the language and the alienating aspects of strident left-wing activism while supporting its core values of justice and liberty. I should have read this book years ago but, in the current climate where clear thinking is so needed, this 1937 semi-autobiographical, semi-sociological work seems uncannily relevant. George Orwell – The Road to Wigan Pier (Penguin) ![]()
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