This review is a dual review then, of ‘1984’ and of ‘The Road to Wigan Pier’. In the 1930s Orwell was sent by a socialist book club to investigate the appalling mass unemployment in the industrial north of England. The Road to Wigan Pier & 1984: A Parallel Analysis Commissioned fortuitously in the period when Socialism was on the retreat and Fascism on the rise, Orwell must already have begun to glimpse the world which he was to envision with vigorous clarity in ‘1984’. CONTENTS CONTENTS Title: The Road to Wigan Pier Author: George Orwell It is a pleasure to acknowledge that the text of this eBook was provided, free of charge, by