The Road to Wigan Pier

George Orwell

Presents an account of the author's observations of working-class life in the bleak industrial heartlands of Yorkshire and Lancashire in the 1930s. It provides descriptions of social injustice, cramped slum housing, dangerous mining conditions, squalor, hunger and growing unemployment....

Courage and Confidence

Norman Vincent Peale

This inspirational reader, edited by the author of "The Power of Positive Thinking", contains a selection of the words of great thinkers and writers, and anecdotes about remarkable people, from da Vinci to Jung. The anthology aims to stimulate the mind and deepen the sp...