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... readers are likely to have been offended because I have used the word '
England ' oftener than ' Britain ' , as though the whole population dwelt in London
and the Home Counties and neither north nor west possessed a culture of its own
.
... readers are likely to have been offended because I have used the word '
England ' oftener than ' Britain ' , as though the whole population dwelt in London
and the Home Counties and neither north nor west possessed a culture of its own
.
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And considering what energy the self - made men possessed , and considering
that they were buying their way into a class which at any rate had a tradition of
public service , one might have expected that able rulers could be produced in ...
And considering what energy the self - made men possessed , and considering
that they were buying their way into a class which at any rate had a tradition of
public service , one might have expected that able rulers could be produced in ...
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DOWN AND OUT IN PARIS AND LONDON Orwell ' s lively and factual record of
his experiences among the poor of two capital cities . Few writers have
possessed a greater gift for spotting the personality behind the rags , or
described the ...
DOWN AND OUT IN PARIS AND LONDON Orwell ' s lively and factual record of
his experiences among the poor of two capital cities . Few writers have
possessed a greater gift for spotting the personality behind the rags , or
described the ...
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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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