Orwell'S England Av George Orwell

<p>Including <i>The Road to Wigan Pier<br></i><b><br>''No one wrote better about the English character than Orwell'' <i>New York Review of Books<br></i></b><br>Much of George Orwell''s best writing, brought together in this collection, is concerned with his complex, often contradictory attitude to England. In the brilliantly perceptive <i>The English People</i>, he lists the national characteristics as ''suspicion of foreigners, sentimentality about animals, hypocrisy, exaggerated class distinctions and an obsession with sport''. <i>The Road to Wigan Pier</i>, his blistering account of poverty in the north of England, and many of his essays, attack what he called ''the most class-ridden country under the sun'', while other writings here ruminate on the merits of cricket, gardening, roast dinners, pubs, tea and seaside postcards.<br><br>Edited by Peter Davison with an Introduction by Ben Pimlott</p>