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In all countries the poor are more national than the rich , but the English working class are outstanding in their abhorrence of foreign habits . Even when they are obliged to live abroad for years they refuse either to accustom ...
In all countries the poor are more national than the rich , but the English working class are outstanding in their abhorrence of foreign habits . Even when they are obliged to live abroad for years they refuse either to accustom ...
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For long past there had been in England an entirely functionless class , living on money that was invested they hardly knew where , the “ idle rich ” , the people whose photographs you can look at in the Tatler and the Bystander ...
For long past there had been in England an entirely functionless class , living on money that was invested they hardly knew where , the “ idle rich ” , the people whose photographs you can look at in the Tatler and the Bystander ...
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Clearly you can't have many bombing planes without lowering the national standard of life . It is guns or butter , as Marshal Göring remarked . But in Chamberlain's England the transition could not be made . The rich would not face the ...
Clearly you can't have many bombing planes without lowering the national standard of life . It is guns or butter , as Marshal Göring remarked . But in Chamberlain's England the transition could not be made . The rich would not face the ...
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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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