Orwell’s Ghosts of Literature

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A key to some of the articles on the Orwell Society website

In The Lion and the Unicorn; Socialism and the English Genius (1941) George Orwell wrote in Part II ‘Shopkeepers at War’ that:

Nothing was more desolating at the beginning of this war than the way in which the whole of the older generation conspired to pretend that it was the war of 1914-1918 over again. All the old duds were back on the job, twenty years older with the skull plainer in their faces. Ian Hay was cheering up the troops, Belloc was writing articles on strategy, Maurois doing broadcasts, Bairnsfather drawing cartoons. It was like a tea party of ghosts.

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Bruce Bairnsfather

The Ghosts: 1, Bruce Bairnsfather

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Ian Hay

Making Hay: I

Making Hay: II

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Hilaire Belloc

Another Ghost: Hilaire Belloc: I

Another Ghost: Hilaire Belloc II

Another Ghost: Hilaire Belloc III

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Andre Maurois

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