The road to Wigan-Pirs. Orwell D.

“When I sit down to write a book,” said Orwell, “I do not say to myself:“ I want to create a work of art. ” I write it-because there is some lies that I must expose, some fact that we need to attract attention... ”That's how four autobiographical novels of Orwell were written that compiled this book.

“Glorious, gloriously we frolic” - about childhood and study at the school of St. Cyprian; Orwell said that he “transferred the sounds, smells and colors of his school childhood to the fantastic“ London ”, and“ the suffering of students in English schools is an analogy to human helplessness before totalitarian power. ” Paris and London ” - about the wrong side of life in the back of the brilliant Paris, where he worked in the hotel, and about the world of London vagabonds and beggars, among which Orwell lived for three years, spending the night under bridges and in the nights for homeless...

“The road to Wigan-Pirs”-about the north of England, at the same time as the poetic and industrial region, and about the hardships of the life of miners, the working class, “humiliated and offended”-to whose suffering the socialist writer could not remain indifferent.

Finally, “Memory of Catalonia” is perhaps one of its most burning and honest texts - about the Civil War in Spain, where Orwell went to fight a militia.