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There is no essential mystery about Orwell ' s politics after he left the I . L . P . in
1939 when Fenner Brockway and others opposed the war : he was a ' Tribune
socialist , and such he remained until his death . The idea that he changed his ...
There is no essential mystery about Orwell ' s politics after he left the I . L . P . in
1939 when Fenner Brockway and others opposed the war : he was a ' Tribune
socialist , and such he remained until his death . The idea that he changed his ...
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... past ten years is to make political writing into an art . . . looking back through
my work , I see that it is invariably where I lacked a political purpose that I wrote
lifeless books and was betrayed into purple passages , sentences without
meaning ...
... past ten years is to make political writing into an art . . . looking back through
my work , I see that it is invariably where I lacked a political purpose that I wrote
lifeless books and was betrayed into purple passages , sentences without
meaning ...
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If the ' artistic purpose ' is limited and straightforward , still the ' political purpose '
rarely has room for dispassionate analysis or time for philosophical justification of
an argument . V . S . Pritchett saw it all in his lead review in the New Statesman ...
If the ' artistic purpose ' is limited and straightforward , still the ' political purpose '
rarely has room for dispassionate analysis or time for philosophical justification of
an argument . V . S . Pritchett saw it all in his lead review in the New Statesman ...
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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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