jackieeejw 's review for:

England Your England by George Orwell

4.25

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A very insightful piece of cultural commentary. I think Orwell’s polemical style leads to some unfounded and overgeneralised conclusions, but this is still incredibly valuable in the picture it paints of England circa 1940. It is kind of amazing how many of the analyses and trajectories he points out are still relevant 80 years later, and there are some beautiful sections of prose (this is most effective where he uses personal experience to make his argument about England) including his descriptions of coming back to England and what it means to belong to a nation early on page 4 & 5.