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He left in 1921 and joined the Indian Imperial Police in Burma the following year,
serving until 1928. Orwell returned to England in 1928 and he spent much of the
following four years living in extreme poverty, and at times as a tramp, in London
...
He left in 1921 and joined the Indian Imperial Police in Burma the following year,
serving until 1928. Orwell returned to England in 1928 and he spent much of the
following four years living in extreme poverty, and at times as a tramp, in London
...
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From that time onwards it has been next door to impossible to induce young men
of spirit to take any part in imperial administration. And what was true of the
official world was true also of the commercial. The great monopoly companies ...
From that time onwards it has been next door to impossible to induce young men
of spirit to take any part in imperial administration. And what was true of the
official world was true also of the commercial. The great monopoly companies ...
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To a Labour government in power, three imperial policies would have been open
. One was to continue administering the Empire exactly as before, which meant
dropping all pretensions to Socialism. Another was to set the subject peoples ...
To a Labour government in power, three imperial policies would have been open
. One was to continue administering the Empire exactly as before, which meant
dropping all pretensions to Socialism. Another was to set the subject peoples ...
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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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