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Page 11
Only when Gollancz commissioned Orwell to go North and write a book about
how the unemployed lived did it become clear ( in The Road to Wigan Pier of
1937 ) that Orwell had committed himself to socialism . Typically , he did not put
up at ...
Only when Gollancz commissioned Orwell to go North and write a book about
how the unemployed lived did it become clear ( in The Road to Wigan Pier of
1937 ) that Orwell had committed himself to socialism . Typically , he did not put
up at ...
Page 16
And Fyvel persuaded a somewhat reluctant Orwell to write for the series himself .
... Orwell had given up ' trying to write ' , meaning novels , although as ever he
was writing lots of book reviews and occasional pieces ( even letters to Time and
...
And Fyvel persuaded a somewhat reluctant Orwell to write for the series himself .
... Orwell had given up ' trying to write ' , meaning novels , although as ever he
was writing lots of book reviews and occasional pieces ( even letters to Time and
...
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And Orwell held to the unusual view that socialists have a peculiar duty to write
about theories , values and policies in a way comprehensible to ordinary literate
people ( unlike much contemporary socialist writing , of his generation and ours )
.
And Orwell held to the unusual view that socialists have a peculiar duty to write
about theories , values and policies in a way comprehensible to ordinary literate
people ( unlike much contemporary socialist writing , of his generation and ours )
.
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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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