Toward the end of Kits Lane is a thatched cottage, the former home of George Orwell ... and his book “The Road to Wigan Pier” (1936). Orwell admitted his misgivings about criticizing his ...

Some books need no subtitle, and “George Orwell and Russia” is one of them ... In “The Road to Wigan Pier” (1937), his first real attempt to merge politics and art, Orwell empathized ...

Wigan Pier' was made famous by author George Orwell in his 1937 book The Road to Wigan Pier. One of the key buildings at the site is the 18th century Gibson's Warehouse, re-built in 1984 as The Orwell ...

The sum total of his own writings on the subject after he began publishing as “George Orwell” comprises ... passages in “The Road to Wigan Pier” (1937) and his debut novel, “Burmese ...

Wigan Pier, immortalised in George Orwell's book The Road to Wigan Pier, will become a "a multi-event space". The ground floor will consist of a delicatessen and a large taproom style pub.

"Orwell was someone who “quarried his way ... whether Paris or the industrial north of England (for The Road to Wigan Pier), or the Spanish Civil War. Serving in Spain on the Republican side ...