

Once there, he went beyond the requests of the book club, to investigate the employed as well. In the 1930s, the Left Book Club, a socialist group in England, sent George Orwell to investigate the poverty and mass unemployment in the industrial north of England. Book Synopsis Before he authored the dystopian 1984 and the allegorical Animal Farm, George Orwell was a journalist, reporting on Englands working class - an investigation that led him to examine democratic socialism. About the Book A journalistic investigation into Englands working class poverty and a critique of democratic socialism in the 1930s from the author of 1984 and Animal Farm.
