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	The Road to Wigan Pier - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Road to Wigan Pier was written by George Orwell and published in 1937.
		Although a pier is a structure built out into the water from the shore, in Britain the term has the connotation of a seaside holiday (somewhat similar to the term boardwalk in the United States).
		Wigan was a small, grimy coal town on a river which was accessed by some boats via an offloading structure, though it primarily used land transport.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Road_to_Wigan_Pier (588 words)

	Part 1.4 - The Road to Wigan Pier - George Orwell, Book, etext
		Wigan, for instance, with a population of about 85,000, has round about 200 caravan-dwellings with a family in each—perhaps somewhere near 1000 people in all.
		Set down in Wigan or Whitechapel Mr Orwell would still exercise an unerring power of closing his vision to all that is good in order to proceed with his wholehearted vilification of humanity.
		Wigan Pier had been demolished, and even the spot where it used to stand is no longer certain.
	whitewolf.newcastle.edu.au /words/authors/O/OrwellGeorge/prose/RoadToWiganPier/wiganpierpart_4.html (6596 words)

	George Orwell: 'The Road to Wigan Pier'
		It bears it off to some place in the main roads where it is shot into tubs holding half a tun, and thence dragged to the cages and hoisted to the outer air.
		Wigan, for instance, with a population of about 85,000, has round about 200 caravan-dwellings with a family in each — perhaps somewhere near 1000 people in all.
		The total population of Wigan is a little under 87,000; so that at any moment more than one person in three out of the whole population — not merely the registered workers — is either drawing or living on the dole.
	orwell.ru /library/novels/The_Road_to_Wigan_Pier/english/e_rtwp (22952 words)

	Telegraph \| Opinion \| World of books
		Animal Farm will always remain a classic analysis of the Soviet experiment, but it is hard to see the Orwell who trod The Road to Wigan Pier in 1937 as an especially wise prophet of his times, with its belief that England would eject socialism in favour of fascism.
		Who, having read The Road to Wigan Pier, can ever forget his description of a coal miner's working day, in which he points out that in order to start a seven-and-a-half-hour shift, the miner has to make a subterranean journey of at least an hour, sometimes several hours, through dark, low dripping passages?
		It is no surprise that Sir Oswald Mosley and his wife regarded The Road to Wigan Pier as a treasured text, which fully justified all their political adventures.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2004/06/14/do1406.xml&sSheet=/opinion/2004/06/14/ixop.html (853 words)

	Guardian \| The road to Wigan Pier
		And the sort of people who fill Wigan Pier were disenfranchised by the dress codes and the DJs who insisted on "educating the crowd", by the unmistakable sense that the superclubs thought they weren't quite good enough to join in.
		But if the Wigan Pier's dance floor reminds you what went wrong with club culture, it also proves that reports of clubbing's death have been exaggerated.
		What's going on at Wigan Pier - and Nag Nag Nag and Manumission - might be wildly different from clubs in their mid-90s heyday, but they're still clubs and they're still packed.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4765740-110432,00.html (2356 words)

	The Road to Wigan Pier by George Orwell (1. part), Terebess Asia Online (TAO) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Road to Wigan Pier by George Orwell (1.
		Wigan, for instance, with a population of about 85,000, has round about 200 caravan-dwellings with a family in each-perhaps somewhere near 1000 people in all.
		The total population of Wigan is a little under 87,000; so that at any moment more than one person in three out of the whole population-not merely the registered workers -is either drawing or living on the dole.
	www.terebess.hu /english/orwell/wiganpier1.html (20692 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Books: The Road to Wigan Pier (Penguin Modern Classics) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The experience profoundly changed him, and in "Wigan Pier" he unleased a brilliant and bitter polemic that has not lost its force with the passage of time.
		The essay, while only really a record of the past, still manages somehow to be an eye-opener, and is tinted with that irresistible darkness, present in so much of Orwell's pre-war work of a world and a society teetering on the brink of a disastrous but necessary changing of the order.
		Perhaps predictably, Orwell never arrives at the symbol of escape from the difficult lives of his characters, Wigan Pier.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0141185295 (1402 words)

	New road to Wigan Pier
		The Pier's new look will be a far cry from its industrial past as a centre of cotton and coal distribution.
		Coun Brian Baldwin, Wigan council's cabinet member for culture, said the Pier scheme would create new jobs and spin-off investments in the town.
		Wigan will also get a new central library and swimming pool in a £65m town centre revamp.
	www.manchesteronline.co.uk /men/news/s/174/174025_new_road_to_wigan_pier.html (389 words)

	The Road to Wigan Pier by George Orwell
		George Orwell's, The Road To Wigan Pier is an account of the life of industrial workers in the north of England in the 1930s and is a scathing answer to socialism.
		(Orwell George, The Road to Wigan Pier, P. By comparing the plight of the coal miner to the daily life of the average city worker, Orwell plays the heart strings of all workers and draws empathy to their plight.
		He goes on to explain in depth the vast difference between the average workers ride in the Tube to the struggles of the coal miner crawling on hands in knees through the darkness into the depths of the mines where they work: This is the kind of point that one is always liable to miss.
	ks.essortment.com /roadtowiganpi_rqmf.htm (1230 words)

	Wheat and Chaff
		A great post from The Belmont Club pointed me to the book The Road to Wigan Pier, a book by George Orwell about the very hard lives of coal miners in Britain during the Industrial Revolution, early in the 20th century.
		Wigan Pier purports to show the failures of capitalism and industrialism, in the heavy price it exacts on people's lives.
		The poor miners of Wigan Pier could only be rescued by their betters.
	wheatchaff.blogspot.com /2004_05_30_wheatchaff_archive.html (2328 words)

	The Austin Chronicle: Arts: Exhibitionism
		Wigan Pier is off the charts in offering a wraparound sensory experience from the moment you step into the Off Center.
		As a Wigan Pier audience member, you get your 7th Street Working Men's Club membership card and raffle ticket at the door and are offered a cup o' tea and a biscuit.
		Wigan Pier covers a vast amount of ground, educating its audience in myriad aspects of the miners' lives: their work, their religious practices, their leisure pursuits, their passions, and their spending habits.
	www.austinchronicle.com /issues/dispatch/2004-01-23/arts_exhibitionism.html (623 words)

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		A Project Gutenberg of Australia eBook Title: The Road to Wigan Pier Author: George Orwell eBook No.: 0200391.txt Edition: 1 Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII Date first posted: June 2002 Date most recently updated: June 2002 This eBook was produced by: O.
		Both of these are from Wigan and both are the cheaper 'non- parlour type' houses: 1.
		The total population of Wigan is a little under 87,000; so that at any moment more than one person in three out of the whole population--not merely the registered workers --is either drawing or living on the dole.
	gutenberg.net.au /ebooks02/0200391.txt (23827 words)

	Richard Lewis Communications
		Born in the depressed 1930s into a family of Lancashire miners, a piece of coal’s throw from Wigan Pier, Richard Lewis grew up in the rough-hewn homeland of Rugby League, with its awesomely deep collieries, its massive, gaunt cotton mills, fl-faced pitmen and raw-boned pit lassies.
		The hard-headed Wiganer was able to accumulate considerable wealth by providing people – particularly industry – with the linguistic and cultural know-how they needed to achieve global competence.
		The Road from Wigan Pier costs £18 + postage and packaging and can be ordered directly from our Publications page.
	www.crossculture.com /publications/wiganpier (497 words)

	The Road to Wigan Pier by George Orwell (2. part), Terebess Asia Online (TAO)
		In Wigan various people gave me their opinion that it is best to get shut of your teeth as early in life as possible.
		In Wigan the competition among unemployed people for the waste coal has become so fierce that it has led to an extraordinary custom called' scrambling for the coal', which is well worth seeing.
		The road from Mandalay to Wigan is a long one and the reasons for taking it are not immediately clear.
	www.terebess.hu /english/orwell/wiganpier2.html (20549 words)

	Amardeep Singh: Class and Empire: George Orwell's The Road to Wigan Pier
		Orwell begins his critique on class and socialism in The Road to Wigan Pier with a meditation on his personal experience of imperialism, an institution he felt to be profoundly evil.
		The truth is that no modern man, in his heart of hearts, believes that it is right to invade a foreign country and hold the population down by force.
		Indeed, the first half of The Road To Wigan Pier is a blistering attack on the harsh working and living conditions of the English working class of his day.
	www.lehigh.edu /~amsp/2004/07/class-and-empire-george-orwells-road_01.html (1477 words)

	Road to Wigan Pier (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Road to Wigan Pier - published in 1937 when he was thirty-four years old - is Orwell's fifth book.
		In the following excerpt from Road to Wigan Pier Orwell explains how the Communists have stolen the Socialist cause and given it a bad name.
		As we approached the centre of town we saw a turn-off to the city of "Letchworth" which is where Orwell used to attend seminars of the Independent Labour Party summer school which, as he wrote in Road To Wigan Pier, attracted "sandal-wearers and bearded fruit-juice drinkers like bluebottles to a dead cat".
	www.orwelltoday.com /wiganpier.shtml (2650 words)

	The Road to Wigan Pier
		That perspective permeates this book, but the most striking elements are the quotidian details of life that Orwell observes in his first-person account of the lives of coal miners and others in the poor north of England.
		That Orwell may have slanted his reporting to make things look worse than they were is a question that does not lessen the book's interest.
		"The Road to Wigan Pier" has the reputation of being one of Orwell's more important works, a condemnation of the iniquities of inter-War British society.
	www.literacyconnections.com /0_0156767503.html (715 words)

	Fundus.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Road To Wigan Pier, published in 1937, is a good example for this period of his life.
		Only in Wigan, which has a population of 85.000, there are about 200 caravans, which are inhabited by about 700 people.
		Despite this problems the city of Barnsley for example built a new town hall for 150.000 £ although there is a need for over 2000 houses, not mention pubic baths (the public baths in Barnsley contain nineteen men's slipper baths-in a town with 70.000 inhabitants, largely miners who have not a bath at home).
	www.fundus.org /referat.asp?ID=7196 (11030 words)

	Wigan Pier: Waterscape.com
		Now Wigan Pier is a decidedly funny thing - in that it's only about a foot long, jutting majestically out into the Leeds and Liverpool Canal.
		It's actually a metal rail at the end of the tramway at Wigan's canal wharf, designed to automatically tip up coal trucks to empty their cargo into the boats moored at the canalside.
		Apart from the famous pier, attractions include waterbus rides on the canal, The Way We Were Museum, Opie's Museum of Memories, and the Trencherfield Mill Engine - the world's largest original working steam engine originally built to provide the power for the cotton spinning mill.
	www.waterscape.com /servicesdirectory/Wigan_Pier (320 words)

	The Road to Wigan Pier -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Road to Wigan Pier -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
		The Road to (Click link for more info and facts about Wigan) Wigan Pier was written by (Imaginative British writer concerned with social justice (1903-1950)) George Orwell and published in (Click link for more info and facts about 1937) 1937.
		The name of the book comes from a (A theater in which vaudeville is staged) music hall routine by a British comedian.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/t/th/the_road_to_wigan_pier.htm (176 words)

	BookkooB: The Road to Wigan Pier - George Orwell, Julian Symons
		BookkooB: The Road to Wigan Pier - George Orwell, Julian Symons
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	The Road to Wigan Pier (George Orwell) - book review
		In the 1930s George Orwell set out to learn about the English working class, spending time living among the poor in mining towns in northern England.
		The Road to Wigan Pier is an account of his experiences, along with more general ruminations on class and the challenge facing socialism.
		Though much less engaging than the first-hand descriptions in part one, however, this does offer a fascinating perspective on the politics of the time.
	dannyreviews.com /h/Wigan_Pier.html (494 words)

	Hausarbeiten.de: George Orwell´s Documentary Work - Focusing on "Down and Out in Paris and London" and "The Road to ...
		The documentaries DOPL and RWP influenced his career as a political writer and coined him as an ambivalent left-wing intellectual.
		In my mind, it is important to get an impression of the problems and circumstances of the historical background when Orwell gathered the material for RWP because the time is closely connected with the content of the book.
		The importance of the political substance of RWP is mirrored in chapter 4.5, including Orwell´s aims, analysis, definition of socialism and his attacks on middle-class socialists.
	www.hausarbeiten.de /faecher/vorschau/34396.html (1283 words)

	Orwell, George. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		In 1936 he fought with the Republicans in the Spanish civil war and was seriously wounded.
		His writings—particularly such early works as Down and Out in Paris and London (1933), Burmese Days (1934), The Road to Wigan Pier (1937), and Homage to Catalonia (1938)—are highly autobiographical.
		A socialist, Orwell was a keen critic of imperialism, fascism, Stalinism, and capitalism.
	www.bartleby.com /65/or/Orwell-G.html (332 words)

	BookPeople \| The Largest Bookstore in Texas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Road To Wigan Pier: A (Socialist) Tea-Time Travelogue & Historical Musical Revue opens in January 2004 at the Off Center.
		The original play is based on George Orwell's book, The Road To Wigan Pier, and explores the trials and tribulations in Lancashire's coal mining communities.
		The action follows a collection of unemployed miners set with the task of putting on a show in a dingy working men's club in Wigan, England, circa 1936.
	www.bookpeople.com /infobook.html?isbn=wiganpage (236 words)

	Summaries & Interpretations : Road to Wigan Pier.
		Summaries & Interpretations : Road to Wigan Pier.
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	Road to Wigan Pier - Opinions and Reviews
		Road to Wigan Pier - Opinions and Reviews
		As always, Orwell is violently critical of the English class structure, and dedicated to the concept of socialism as a cure for that country`s ills.
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		Orwell's dedication to exploring what life was really like for the coal miners was made at considerable personal discomfort and were as heroic as Jonathan Kozol's efforts in our present time.
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