The Road To Wigan PierA journalistic investigation into England's working class poverty and a critique of democratic socialism in the 1930s from the author of 1984 and Animal Farm. Before he authored the dystopian 1984 and the allegorical Animal Farm, George Orwell was a journalist, reporting on England's working class an investigation that led him to examine democratic socialism. In the 1930s, during the Great Depression era, the Left Book Club, a socialist group in