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The most hateful of all names in an English ear is Nosey Parker . It is obvious , of course , that even this purely private liberty is a lost cause . Like all other modern peoples , the English are in process of being numbered ...
The most hateful of all names in an English ear is Nosey Parker . It is obvious , of course , that even this purely private liberty is a lost cause . Like all other modern peoples , the English are in process of being numbered ...
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They do not retain among their historical memories the name of a single military victory . English literature , like other literatures , is full of battle - poems , but it is worth noticing that the ones that have won for themselves a ...
They do not retain among their historical memories the name of a single military victory . English literature , like other literatures , is full of battle - poems , but it is worth noticing that the ones that have won for themselves a ...
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And of the last war , the four names which have really engraved themselves on the popular memory are Mons , Ypres , Gallipoli and Passchendaele , every time a disaster . The names of the great battles that finally broke the German ...
And of the last war , the four names which have really engraved themselves on the popular memory are Mons , Ypres , Gallipoli and Passchendaele , every time a disaster . The names of the great battles that finally broke the German ...
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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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