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Page 37
However much you hate it or laugh at it , you will never be happy away from it for
any length of time . The suet puddings and the red pillar - boxes have entered
into your soul . Good or evil , it is yours , you belong to it , and this side the grave
...
However much you hate it or laugh at it , you will never be happy away from it for
any length of time . The suet puddings and the red pillar - boxes have entered
into your soul . Good or evil , it is yours , you belong to it , and this side the grave
...
Page 98
The Labour leaders never found a solution , and from 1935 . onwards it was very
doubtful whether they had any wish to take office . They had degenerated into a
Permanent Opposition . Outside the Labour Party there existed several extremist
...
The Labour leaders never found a solution , and from 1935 . onwards it was very
doubtful whether they had any wish to take office . They had degenerated into a
Permanent Opposition . Outside the Labour Party there existed several extremist
...
Page 112
Within a year , perhaps even within six months , if we are still unconquered , we
shall see the rise of something that has never existed before , a specifically
English Socialist movement . Hitherto there has been only the Labour Party ,
which ...
Within a year , perhaps even within six months , if we are still unconquered , we
shall see the rise of something that has never existed before , a specifically
English Socialist movement . Hitherto there has been only the Labour Party ,
which ...
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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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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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