Literature
Boys’ Weeklies
George Orwell
Orwell reads the Gem and the Magnet and asks what the cheap school stories sold to working-class boys teach them about class, empire and the world.
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- Text: Shooting an Elephant and Other Essays (London: Secker & Warburg, 1950; 1968 printing), Faded Page #20190234.