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Inside the Whale and Other Essays

Inside the Whale and Other Essays

Inside the Whale and Other Essays is a book of essays written by George Orwell in 1940. It includes the eponymous essay Inside the Whale.


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“Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be.”

"Charles Dickens" (1939), Inside the Whale and Other Essays (1940) http://orwell.ru/library/reviews/dickens/english/e_chd
Charles Dickens (1939)

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“So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot.”

Inside the Whale (1940) http://orwell.ru/library/essays/whale/english/e_itw
Source: Inside the Whale and Other Essays

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