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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 ...
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 ...
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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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