Without sensationalism and almost without plot it sets to record the actual detail of manual work and the tiny things almost unimaginable to any comfortably situated person which make life a misery when one's income drops below a certain level... It is a book that everyone should read. Quite apart from its value as a piece of social history it leaves one with the feeling that a considerable novelist was lost in this young working-man whom society could not bother to keep alive

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This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Without sensationalism and almost without plot it sets to record the actual detail of manual work and the tiny things almost unimaginable to any comfortably situated person which make life a misery when one's income drops below a certain level... It is a book that everyone should read. Quite apart from its value as a piece of social history it leaves one with the feeling that a considerable novelist was lost in this young working-man whom society could not bother to keep alive" in the context of "George Orwell, review of The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists in Manchester Evenings News (25 April 1946), quoted in George Orwell, Smothered Under Journalism 1946, eds. Peter Davison (1998; rev. ed. 2001), pp. 255-257" to mean that wisdom is timeless.