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Only half a million people , the people in the country houses , definitely benefited from the existing system . Moreover , the tendency of small business to merge together into large ones robbed more and more of the monied class of ...
Only half a million people , the people in the country houses , definitely benefited from the existing system . Moreover , the tendency of small business to merge together into large ones robbed more and more of the monied class of ...
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In those vast new wildernesses of glass and brick the sharp distinctions of the older kind of town , with its slums and mansions , or of the country , with its manor houses and squalid cottages , no longer exist .
In those vast new wildernesses of glass and brick the sharp distinctions of the older kind of town , with its slums and mansions , or of the country , with its manor houses and squalid cottages , no longer exist .
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The Stock Exchange will be pulled down , the horse plough will give way to the tractor , the country houses will be turned into children's holiday camps , the Eton and Harrow match will be forgotten , but England will still be England ...
The Stock Exchange will be pulled down , the horse plough will give way to the tractor , the country houses will be turned into children's holiday camps , the Eton and Harrow match will be forgotten , but England will still be England ...
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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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| Title | The Lion and the Unicorn: Socialism and the English Genius The Uniform Edition of George Orwell Works, George Orwell [His works. Uniform edition], George Orwell |
| Author | George Orwell |
| Publisher | Secker and Warburg, 1962 |
| Original from | Pennsylvania State University |
| Digitized | 11 Feb 2011 |
| Length | 96 pages |
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