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... France and before the Nazi invasion of Russia . The book is in one sense still very close to us , but in some other senses very remote . The context must be understood . And Orwell had taken a long time to come to both his famous plain ...
... France and before the Nazi invasion of Russia . The book is in one sense still very close to us , but in some other senses very remote . The context must be understood . And Orwell had taken a long time to come to both his famous plain ...
Page 48
... France ' and ' the French ' , recognizing France as an entity , a single civilization , which in fact it is . So also with ourselves . Looked at from the outside , even the cockney and the York- shireman have a strong family resemblance ...
... France ' and ' the French ' , recognizing France as an entity , a single civilization , which in fact it is . So also with ourselves . Looked at from the outside , even the cockney and the York- shireman have a strong family resemblance ...
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... France . The Third Republic had more influence , intellectually , than the France of Napo- leon III . But the sort of peace that Pétain , Laval and Co. have accepted can only be purchased by deliberately wiping out the national culture ...
... France . The Third Republic had more influence , intellectually , than the France of Napo- leon III . But the sort of peace that Pétain , Laval and Co. have accepted can only be purchased by deliberately wiping out the national culture ...
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