ABSTRACT
Of Mr Orwell’s book, there is little to say except praise…. Starting with the usual middle-class public school education, he has attempted to join the [working] class. The first part of his book is a description of life in the North of England. It opens with the most realistic description of a lodging house over a tripe shop, kept by two terrifying people called Brooker. The other lodgers are two old-age pensioners (paying their weekly ten shillings for board and lodging, their lives insured by the Brookers); Mr Reilly, a mining mechanic; a Scotch miner, injured in a pit accident; and a man on the P.A.C.1 named Joe.
