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One is the lack of artistic ability . This is perhaps another way of saying that the
English are outside the European culture . For there is one art in which they have
shown plenty of talent , namely literature . But this is also the only art that cannot ...
One is the lack of artistic ability . This is perhaps another way of saying that the
English are outside the European culture . For there is one art in which they have
shown plenty of talent , namely literature . But this is also the only art that cannot ...
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Perhaps the last right - wing intellectual was T. E. Lawrence . Since about 1930
everyone describable as an lectual ” has lived in a state of chronic discontent
with the existing order . Necessarily so , because society as it was constituted
had no ...
Perhaps the last right - wing intellectual was T. E. Lawrence . Since about 1930
everyone describable as an lectual ” has lived in a state of chronic discontent
with the existing order . Necessarily so , because society as it was constituted
had no ...
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England is perhaps the only great country whose intellectuals are ashamed of
their own nationality . In leftwing circles it is always felt that there is something
slightly disgraceful in being an Englishman and that it is a duty to snigger at every
...
England is perhaps the only great country whose intellectuals are ashamed of
their own nationality . In leftwing circles it is always felt that there is something
slightly disgraceful in being an Englishman and that it is a duty to snigger at every
...
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The Lion and the Unicorn: Socialism and the English Genius Issue 1 of Searchlight Books : 1. Ausg Issue 1 of Searchlight books |
| Author | George Orwell |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | AMS Press, 1976 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 29 Jul 2009 |
| ISBN | 0404146910, 9780404146917 |
| Length | 126 pages |
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