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His biography may help to explain his critical distancing, but unlike so many left-
wing intellectuals, he was not merely critical. He loved his native land for all its
faults. Indeed the red thread of argument running through all three sections of the
...
His biography may help to explain his critical distancing, but unlike so many left-
wing intellectuals, he was not merely critical. He loved his native land for all its
faults. Indeed the red thread of argument running through all three sections of the
...
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as an 'intellectual' has lived in a state of chronic discontent with the existing order.
Necessarily so, because society as it was constituted had no room for him. In an
Empire that was simply stagnant, neither being developed nor falling to pieces, ...
as an 'intellectual' has lived in a state of chronic discontent with the existing order.
Necessarily so, because society as it was constituted had no room for him. In an
Empire that was simply stagnant, neither being developed nor falling to pieces, ...
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perhaps the only great country whose intellectuals are ashamed of their own
nationality. In left-wing circles it is always felt that there is something slightly
disgraceful in being an Englishman and that it is a duty to snigger at every
English ...
perhaps the only great country whose intellectuals are ashamed of their own
nationality. In left-wing circles it is always felt that there is something slightly
disgraceful in being an Englishman and that it is a duty to snigger at every
English ...
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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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