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This sentiment is shared in a review by Hamish Miles in New Statesman and Nation on May 1, 1937.

Miles writes that The Road to Wigan Pier “ is a living and lively book from start to finish.

The honest Tory must face what he tells and implies, and the honest Socialist must face him, too .” Douglas Goldring, writing in Fortnightly in April 1937, describes the book as “ beautiful ” and “ disturbing ,” and like Miles highly recommends that both conservatives and socialists read it.

In Tribune on March 12, 1937, Walter Greenwood calls Part I “ authentic and first rate ” but was more ambivalent towards Part II: “ Part II, Orwell has you with him one moment and provoked beyond endurance the next.

I cannot remember having been so infuriated for a long time than by some of the things he says here .”