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Page 36
When you come back to England from any foreign country, you have immediately
the sensation of breathing a different air. Even in the first few minutes dozens of
small things conspire to give you this feeling. The beer is bitterer, the coins are ...
When you come back to England from any foreign country, you have immediately
the sensation of breathing a different air. Even in the first few minutes dozens of
small things conspire to give you this feeling. The beer is bitterer, the coins are ...
Page 49
Even when they are obliged to live abroad for years they refuse either to
accustom themselves to foreign food or to learn foreign languages. Nearly every
Englishman of working-class origin considers it effeminate to pronounce a
foreign word ...
Even when they are obliged to live abroad for years they refuse either to
accustom themselves to foreign food or to learn foreign languages. Nearly every
Englishman of working-class origin considers it effeminate to pronounce a
foreign word ...
Page 51
A foreign observer sees only the huge inequality of wealth, the unfair electoral
system, the governing-class control over the press, the radio and education, and
concludes that democracy is simply a polite name for dictatorship. But this
ignores ...
A foreign observer sees only the huge inequality of wealth, the unfair electoral
system, the governing-class control over the press, the radio and education, and
concludes that democracy is simply a polite name for dictatorship. But this
ignores ...
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| Title | The lion and the unicorn: socialism and the English genius Penguin twentieth-century classics Penguin Books |
| Author | George Orwell |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Penguin Books, 1982 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 7 Sep 2010 |
| Length | 123 pages |
| Subjects | › › England Great Britain Political Science / Political Ideologies / Communism & Socialism Social structure Socialism Socialism in Great Britain |
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