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... 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 the local station hotel , nor for long in the clean ...
... 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 the local station hotel , nor for long in the clean ...
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... write for the series himself . Putting so much energy into trying to enlist or to get a ' real ' job to help the war effort , Orwell had given up ' trying to write ' , meaning novels , although as ever he was writing lots of book ...
... write for the series himself . Putting so much energy into trying to enlist or to get a ' real ' job to help the war effort , Orwell had given up ' trying to write ' , meaning novels , although as ever he was writing lots of book ...
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... writing that Orwell set for himself in his essay of 1946 , ' Why I Write ' , The Lion and the Unicorn at least partially succeeds , and has more literary merit than at least two of his novels : ... What I have most wanted to do in the ...
... writing that Orwell set for himself in his essay of 1946 , ' Why I Write ' , The Lion and the Unicorn at least partially succeeds , and has more literary merit than at least two of his novels : ... What I have most wanted to do in the ...
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