ARGONAUT BOOKS

In 1936, George Orwell left his home in London and travelled to the industrial north of England with the intention of experiencing first-hand the conditions in which the working-class poor were compelled to live. During his two-month expedition he visited Manchester, Wigan and Liverpool then Sheffield, Leeds and Barnsley in Yorkshire, recording his impressions in a diary that would later form the basis of one of the most significant works of literary reportage ever written. Part sociological survey, part polemic about the potential benefits of socialism - as well as the failures and idiosyncra...Read More