Orwell'S England Av George Orwell

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