England. The birthplace of Charles Darwin, Winston Churchill, Aldous Huxley...
The English. Polite and law-abiding, always defending the weak, but faithful to feudal traditions and prejudiced against foreign cuisine... They are intolerant of violence, but at the same time see nothing wrong with traditional corporal punishment...
The English character, England itself, and the works of its outstanding minds – Rudyard Kipling, T.S. Eliot, Charles Dickens, Henry Miller – under the close attention of George Orwell!
These essays, invariably original, always very personal, were once hotly debated in the English press and society. But even now, almost 70 years later, they are no less interesting to read!