Notes on Nationalism
Feb 2018 · Penguin UK
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'The general uncertainty as to what is really happening makes it easier to cling to lunatic beliefs'
Biting and timeless reflections on patriotism, prejudice and power, from the man who wrote about his nation better than anyone.
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Biting and timeless reflections on patriotism, prejudice and power, from the man who wrote about his nation better than anyone.
Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary, international flavour. Here are authors ranging from Kathy Acker to James Baldwin, Truman Capote to Stanislaw Lem and George Orwell to Shirley Jackson; essays radical and inspiring; poems moving and disturbing; stories surreal and fabulous; taking us from the deep South to modern Japan, New York's underground scene to the farthest reaches of outer space.
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Luke O'Sullivan
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15 September 2019
It would seem hard to believe that a book written in 1945 would accurately portray the supposedly modern world of today. Many of these types of nationalism exist today and it feels more pervasive than it has been. New forms of nationalism are also on the rise today, conflicting and grating against those forms which already exist, namely European nationalism (born partially from Anglophobia), Islamic nationalism and its adversarial anti-Muslim sentiments amongst more and more people.
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Samir Satam
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17 April 2019
This book is a must read to understand the psychological insights of those who have been infected in growing numbers by the virus of Nationalism...
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Mr. Neo-N
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12 September 2019
Good book
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About the author
Eric Arthur Blair (1903-1950), better known by his pen-name, George Orwell, was born in India, where his father worked for the Civil Service. An author and journalist, Orwell was one of the most prominent and influential figures in twentieth-century literature. His unique political allegory Animal Farm was published in 1945, and it was this novel, together with the dystopia of Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), which brought him world-wide fame. His novels and non-fiction include Burmese Days, Down and Out in Paris and London, The Road to Wigan Pier and Homage to Catalonia.
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