The hard-cover book of George Orwell’s “Road to Wigan Pier” was due at the Hull Central Library all the way back in 1974. What would’ve been a hefty fee was eliminated thanks to the ...

A novel has been returned to a library 50 years past its due date by an embarrassed anonymous borrower. The hard-backed copy of George Orwell's Road to Wigan Pier was supposed to be back at Hull's ...

Originally, the "pier" was a loading jetty along the canal, where coal from Wigan’s mines would be loaded onto barges. Over time, it gained a somewhat mythic status, mainly due to George Orwell's 1937 ...

George Orwell was the most influential British writer since 1945. Many of his neologisms – such as ‘Big Brother’, ‘Thought Police’, ‘Room 101’, ‘Newspeak’, ‘memory hole’, ‘doublethink’ and ...

In 2016, after the election of Donald Trump, Orwell’s books stormed into bestseller lists ... everyday observation and assessment of evidence. While writing The Road to Wigan Pier (1937), he wrote ...

It is also natural for the last book an author writes to get special attention, so The Road to Wigan Pier might loom large in considerations of him. This is typically described as a look at class ...

He described his experiences in his first book, 'Down and Out in Paris and ... which resulted in 'The Road to Wigan Pier' (1937). The defining political experience of his life was the six months ...

Click to Enlarge: Artist's impression of the special barge being used as a pier to land tanks and troops across an otherwise ... These have unusually long road bridges extending from their bows. This ...