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English Novelist, Essayist, Journalist, Critic, Supporter of Democratic Socialism, Opponent of Authoritarianism, and Proven Undercover Agent Reporting on the Left to the Police
: An English novelist, essayist, journalist, and critic. His work is characterised by lucid prose, social criticism, opposition to totalitarianism, and support of democratic socialism. Orwell produced literary criticism, poetry, fiction and polemical journalism. He is known for the allegorical novella Animal Farm (1945) and the dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949). (From: Wikipedia.org.)
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Quote #7 on Education Struggle Quotes >> School and Capitalism
“I recall a conversation that must have taken place about a year before I left St Cyprian's. A Russian boy, large and fair-haired, a year older than myself, was questioning me.
"How much a year has your father got?"
I told him what I thought it was, adding a few hundreds to make it sound better. The Russian boy, neat in his habits, produced a pencil and a small note-book and made a calculation.
"My father has over two hundred times as much money as yours," he announced with a sort of amused contempt.
That was in 1915. What happened to that money a couple of years later, I wonder? And still more I wonder, do conversations of that kind happen at preparatory schools now?”
Source: "Such, Such Were The Joys," by George Orwell, 1947. First published: Partisan Review. ? GB, London. ? September-October 1952. Part VI.
"Such, Such Were The Joys," by George Orwell, 1947. First published: Partisan Review. ? GB, London. ? September-October 1952.
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