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The Lion and the Unicorn: Socialism and the English Genius

George Orwell

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• _Title:_ The Lion and the Unicorn _Date of first publication:_ 1941 _Author:_ George Orwell (1903-1950) _Date first posted:_ May 29, 2018 _Date last updated:_ May 29, 2018 Faded Page eBook #20180531
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• GEORGE ORWELL
• _The Lion_ _and the Unicorn_
• Socialism and the English Genius
• Penguin Books
• Penguin Books Ltd, Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England First published in the Searchlight Books series by Seeker & Warburg 1941
• Published in Volume 2 of _The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell_ by Seeker & Warburg 1968 and in Penguin Books 1970
• Published separately with a new Introduction in Penguin Books 1982 Reprinted 1984, 1986 Copyright George Orwell, 1941 All rights reserved Made and printed in Great Britain by Richard Clay (The Chaucer Press) Ltd, Bungay, Suffolk Set in Monophoto Ehrhardt
• Except in the United States of America, this book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, re-sold, hired out, or otherwise circulated without the publisher's prior consent in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser
• CONTENTS
• THE LION AND THE UNICORN 31
• PART ONE: England Your England 33
• PART TWO: Shopkeepers at War 71
• PART THREE: The English Revolution 93
• _The Lion and the Unicorn_
• [The end of _The Lion and the Unicorn_ by George Orwell]