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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 ...
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 ...
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as an ' intellectual ' has lived in a state of chronic discontent with the existing
order . Necessarily so ... The intellectuals could find a function for themselves
only in the literary reviews and the left - wing political parties . The mentality of the
...
as an ' intellectual ' has lived in a state of chronic discontent with the existing
order . Necessarily so ... The intellectuals could find a function for themselves
only in the literary reviews and the left - wing political parties . The mentality of the
...
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perhaps the only great country whose intellectuals are ashamed of their own
nationality . ... It is a strange fact , but it is unquestionably true that almost any
English intellectual would feel more ashamed of standing to attention during '
God save ...
perhaps the only great country whose intellectuals are ashamed of their own
nationality . ... It is a strange fact , but it is unquestionably true that almost any
English intellectual would feel more ashamed of standing to attention during '
God save ...
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User Review - the.ken.petersen - LibraryThingIt seems harsh to criticise George Orwell's optimism when he implies that socialism has become inevitable: he was writing in 1941, I thought so in 1980. Sadly, Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher and ... Read full review
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| 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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