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The modern Council house , with its bathroom and electric light , is smaller than the stockbroker's villa , but it is recognizably the same kind of house , which the farm labourer's cottage is not . A person who has grown up in a ...
The modern Council house , with its bathroom and electric light , is smaller than the stockbroker's villa , but it is recognizably the same kind of house , which the farm labourer's cottage is not . A person who has grown up in a ...
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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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One in family , eight in staff ” are appearing in the press . The bombed - out populations of the East End go hungry and homeless while wealthier victims simply step into their cars and flee to comfortable country houses ...
One in family , eight in staff ” are appearing in the press . The bombed - out populations of the East End go hungry and homeless while wealthier victims simply step into their cars and flee to comfortable country houses ...
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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 Issue 1 of Searchlight books |
| Author | George Orwell |
| Publisher | Secker & Warburg, 1941 |
| Length | 126 pages |
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