By 28 November 1939, 44,039 copies of the Left Book Club edition, 2,150 trade copies, and 890 copies of Part I only had been printed: a total of 47,079. Part I was also issued separately in May 1937 by the Left Book Club as a supplementary volume for ‘propaganda distribution’.
He delivered the manuscript on 15 December and it was published on 8 March 1937 in a Left Book Club edition and simultaneously in a higher-priced trade edition. On his return on 2 April he set about writing The Road to Wigan Pier. He left London on 30 January 1936 and spent two months in Lancashire and Yorkshire. George Orwell was commissioned by Victor Gollancz to write on the depressed areas of the north of England and, having handed in his typescript of Keep the Aspidistra Flyingfor publication, he gave up his part-time job as a bookshop assistant in Hampstead and travelled north. Home / Orwell / Articles / Peter Davison: Note on The Road to Wigan Pier Peter Davison: Note on The Road to Wigan Pier
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