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The first section , ' England Your England ” , argues that ' the gentleness of
English civilization is perhaps its most marked characteristic . . . It is a land where
the bus conductors are good - tempered and the police carry no revolvers . ' But it
is ...
The first section , ' England Your England ” , argues that ' the gentleness of
English civilization is perhaps its most marked characteristic . . . It is a land where
the bus conductors are good - tempered and the police carry no revolvers . ' But it
is ...
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6 The second section , ' Shopkeepers at War ' , argues that ' the war has
demonstrated that private capitalism . . . does not work , and that ' it is only by
revolution that the English people can be set free ' . But revolution to Orwell is not
a coup d ...
6 The second section , ' Shopkeepers at War ' , argues that ' the war has
demonstrated that private capitalism . . . does not work , and that ' it is only by
revolution that the English people can be set free ' . But revolution to Orwell is not
a coup d ...
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This is not the place to argue the merits of these two traditions , but simply to
indicate in which of them Orwell stood . No ' proto - Social Democrat ' he . The
third important point is embedded in this same passage . He argues that the
English ...
This is not the place to argue the merits of these two traditions , but simply to
indicate in which of them Orwell stood . No ' proto - Social Democrat ' he . The
third important point is embedded in this same passage . He argues that the
English ...
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The Lion and the Unicorn: Socialism and the English Genius A Penguin book : Polit. science Volume 6327 of Penguin Books Penguin twentieth-century classics |
| Author | George Orwell |
| Editor | Bernard R. Crick |
| Contributor | Bernard R. Crick |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Penguin Books, 1982 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 7 Sep 2010 |
| ISBN | 0140063277, 9780140063271 |
| Length | 123 pages |
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