Example sentences of "the road to wigan " in BNC.
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| 1 | Socialism has always attracted its fair share of cranks ; as long ago as 1937 , George Orwell wrote in The Road to Wigan Pier that the very word ‘ Socialism ’ seemed to act like a magnet attracting ‘ every fruit-juice drinker , nudist. sandal-wearer , sex maniac , Quaker , ‘ Nature Cure ’ quack , pacifist and feminist in England ’ . |
| 2 | I feel a fraud , a bit-part player in a soft and southern version of The Road To Wigan Pier . |
| 3 | George Orwell The Road to Wigan Pier |
| 4 | The man was George Orwell and he called his journey The Road to Wigan Pier . |
| 5 | George Orwell , The Road to Wigan Pier |
| 6 | George Orwell , The Road to Wigan Pier |
| 7 | George Orwell , The Road to Wigan Pier |
| 8 | George Orwell , The Road to Wigan Pier |
| 9 | George Orwell , The Road to Wigan Pier |
| 10 | George Orwell , The Road to Wigan Pier |
| 11 | The Road to Wigan Pier 's wanton polemics against effete intellectuals and strident feminists are suffused by homophobia . |
| 12 | Orwell broke with his class to express his solidarity with the miners in The Road to Wigan Pier , and he expressed his solidarity in terms of his own class position . |
| 13 | George Orwell in The road to Wigan pier ( 1937 ) : Another influential observer was J.B. Priestley ; his English journey ( 1934 ) , ‘ being a rambling but truthful account of what one man saw and heard and felt and thought during a journey through England during the Autumn of the year 1933 ’ , evoked another angry response to his urban world . |
| 14 | The Road to Wigan Pier , The long road from Jarrow |