 The book was reviewed on 14 March 1937 by Edward Shanks, for "The Sunday Times", and by Hugh Massingham, for "The Observer".Harry Pollitt, a leader in the Communist Party of Great Britain, reviewed the book, vitriolically, for the 17 March 1937 issue of the "Daily Worker", though even he "was forced to concede some merit to its first part".In general, early reviewers of "The Road to Wigan Pier" praised Orwell's depiction of the working class in Part I.