ORWELL, George.

£375 · Offered by Peter Harrington · No longer available

The English People. First edition of this celebrated study of the English character, commissioned to promote Britain as a free society during the Second World War. Orwell's essay ranges from English faults - snobbishness, insularity, class obsessions - to English achievements, and their essentially humane political culture: an important model for war-torn Europe. It is only with the empowerment of the common people, he argues, that England can remain a great nation in the post-war world.

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